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- GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
- GAY QATARIS PHYSILLY ABED THEN RECED AS AGENTS, MPAIGNER SAYS
GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
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 * qatar gay diritti *
What do Qatar's law say about homosexualy?Qatari law lls for a prison sentence of one to three years for "ducg or scg a male or a female any way to m illegal or immoral actns".It also lls for the same punishment for whoever is "stigatg" or "scg" a male to "m sodomy". Click to subscribe to the Sky News Daily wherever you get your podstsWhat else has recently been said about the Gulf state's stance on homosexualy?Former Qatari footballer Khalid Salman - an ambassador for the World Cup - scribed homosexualy as "damage the md".Ahead of the tournament, he told German public broadster ZDF's news programme Hte Journal that beg gay is "haram" - or forbidn Arabic.Mr Salman also said homosexualy "is spirual harm".Foreign Secretary Jam Cleverly faced strong cricism the UK for tellg gay fans who vis Qatar to not stage any protts.He said overseas travellers should "rpect the laws of their host untry" - but was acced of handg gay fans travellg to Qatar a "slap the face".In a further terview wh Sky News, Mr Cleverly said: "The are Mlim untri, they have a very different cultural startg pot [om] ."I thk 's important, when you're a visor to a untry, that you rpect the culture of your host natn."His ments provoked fierce cricism, wh the mister beg acced of beg "shockgly tone-af".Read more:England make wng start to World Cup mpaignEngland open World Cup by takg the kneeMeanwhile, there was "ntempt" exprsed for FIFA after plans by England and Wal to wear anti-discrimatn armbands were dropped unr threat of sportg sanctn.In a statement, the Football Supporters' Associatn said: "Today we feel betrayed.
The World Cup will start jt two weeks' time, spe grave ncerns over Qatar's rerd on human rights, wh the Middle East untry ntug to persecute the LGBT+ munyA gay man has claimed he was hunted by police ahead of the upg World CupA gay man who has prevly livg Qatar has claimed he was 'hunted' by the untry's police force before beg gang-raped a hotel room. One of the biggt ncerns about the Middle East untry is s laws which outlaw homosexualy, wh LGBT+ people the untry at risk of imprisonment or even the ath penalty. One gay man om the Philipp who worked Qatar as an office assistant, has told how he was lured to a hotel and gang-raped by police.
GAY QATARIS PHYSILLY ABED THEN RECED AS AGENTS, MPAIGNER SAYS
The man, 'Ali', told the i that he received a msage on a gay datg app om a man claimg to be a Turkish worker.