Utrecht sodomy trials
{'<entity_0>': 'Utrecht sodomy trials', '<entity_1>': 'Dutch Republic', '<entity_2>': 'persecution', '<entity_3>': '1730'}
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The <entity_0> (Dutch: Utrechtse sodomieprocessen) were a large-scale <entity_2> of homosexuals that took place in the <entity_1>, starting in the city of Utrecht in <entity_3>. As of <entity_3>, the <entity_1> had just experienced an epizootic disease in its cattle population, while its dikes were threatened by shipworm. Death by strangling was the most common punishment for homosexual acts in the <entity_1> but other punishments during the <entity_3>–31 purge included hanging and drowning in a barrel of water.
['persecution']