Gay Qataris have been promised safety om torture exchange for helpg to track down other LGBTQ+ people, a proment Qatari gay-rights mpaigner has said
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GAY QATARIS PHYSILLY ABED THEN RECED AS AGENTS, MPAIGNER SAYS
TIME speaks to Dr. Naser Mohamed, the first and currently only Qatari to publicly e out as gay, ahead of the World Cup. * us lgbt qatar *
She once aga nmned Uganda’s Anti-Homosexualy Act that Print Yoweri Meveni signed May.
The bill ntas a ath penalty provisn for “aggravated homosexualy” and crimaliz the “promotn of homosexualy” wh up to 20 years prison.
Qatar Preventive Secury Department forc have arbrarily arrted lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and subjected them to ill-treatment tentn, Human Rights Watch said today. LGBT people terviewed said that their mistreatment took place as recently as September 2022, as Qatar prepared to host the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup November and even as the ernment me unr tense scty for s treatment of LGBT people. * us lgbt qatar *
“One might argue that a meetg like this uld be labelled promotn of homosexualy and we uld all be held crimally liable for beg this nference room today, ” said Stern.