'I was hunted by Qatari police and raped', alleg gay expatriate, who was later ported

Contents:

• HERE ARE THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• GAY MEN CHALLENGE QATAR ATH PENALTY FOR HOMOSEXUALY
• ‘I WAS HUNTED BY QATARI POLICE AND RAPED’: GAY EXPATRIATE ALLEG SEXUAL HARASSMENT BY THORI QATAR
• GAY QATARIS PHYSILLY ABED THEN RECED AS AGENTS, MPAIGNER SAYS
• QATAR THREAT OF TORTURE TO TURN GAY PEOPLE TO ‘AGENTS’, ACTIVIST SAYS

HERE ARE THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH

There are currently 11 untri where beg gay n get you killed unr law. While LGBTQ rights have ma great stris parts of the world, homosexualy remas illegal an timated 70 untri, and 11 untri rry the potential for the ath penalty, particularly among men who have sex wh men. The newt addn to this list, homosexualy was already punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment Bnei, but the south-east Asian natn has recently implemented a strict new law that punish male same-sex activy wh ath by stong.

In the areas, the punishment for those found guilty of homosexualy is at a judge’s discretn, and may be ath. In March 2013, was reported that a gay teenager was stoned to ath ont of a crowd after he was nvicted of sodomy.

GAY MEN CHALLENGE QATAR ATH PENALTY FOR HOMOSEXUALY

What the law says: “Homosexualy is the ntact of one man to another through his posterr; both sodom whether mal or femal are punished wh whippg of one hundred strok if not married. Married men nvicted of homosexualy face the ath penalty. What are the laws on gay sex Qatar?

Qatar, officially regnis Islam as the state relign, and unr Sharia law Mlim men n be sentenced to ath by stong for homosexualy. Four transgenr women, one bisexual woman and one gay man were reportedly imprisoned whout charge, legal unsel, or trial, and forced to sign pledg promisg they would “cease immoral activy”. “It don’t matter if you’re lbian, if you’re gay, ’s for everyone.

‘I WAS HUNTED BY QATARI POLICE AND RAPED’: GAY EXPATRIATE ALLEG SEXUAL HARASSMENT BY THORI QATAR

Homosexualy Qatar is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison. But there have been mixed msag wh a World Cup ambassador and former footballer Khalid Salman sayg earlier this month that homosexualy was “damage the md, ” an terview wh German broadster ZDF. He is a regular at England ternatnals and was once the victim of a homophobic asslt, he says, at Wembley four years ago, ahead of England’s match agast Spa 2018, when he had an altertn wh another fan.

Gay men are blowg the whistle now, two months before the World Cup, mandg the host natn of Qatar change s anti-LGBTQ ways.

Fan reprentative Dar Mn spoke English directly to Abdulla b Mohammed b Sd Al Thani, about who he is and who he lov, Mn told him to “abolish the ath penalty” for homosexualy. It don’t matter if you’re lbian, if you’re gay.

GAY QATARIS PHYSILLY ABED THEN RECED AS AGENTS, MPAIGNER SAYS

More than 5, 000 away San Francis, a gay Qatari physician has anized a petn to tell the land of his birth: Love Is Not A Crime. A gay man who had rid Qatar alleged that the police there “hunted” him before gang-rapg him a hotel room.

He said that a different dividual sent him a msage on a gay datg app posg as a Turkish worker and offerg him a sizeable sum of money exchange for visg his hotel room. EXCLUSIVE “Qatari officials gang-raped me for beg gay. After searchg his suse and accg him of beg a prostute, another gay male arrived after beg persuad to the hotel as well.

Acrdg to the untry’s penal , homosexualy is illegal Qatar and is punishable by up to seven years prison. The anti-homosexual laws Qatar, which put lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people fear of jail time or perhaps the ath penalty, are one of the biggt for ncern. Gay Qataris have been promised safety om physil torture exchange for helpg the thori to track down other LGBTQ+ people the untry, a proment Qatari doctor and gay rights mpaigner has told the Nasser Mohamed, who liv the US but retas ntact wh hundreds of gay Qataris, said that some secret works had been promised after arrts by Qatar’s preventive secury partment.

QATAR THREAT OF TORTURE TO TURN GAY PEOPLE TO ‘AGENTS’, ACTIVIST SAYS

“A lot [of gay Qataris] don’t know about each other, ” Mohamed said. “Now there are agents the gay muny that were promised safety om physil torture exchange for workg for the preventive secury partment and helpg them fd groups of LGBTQ+ people. ”Mohamed told the Guardian that foreign gay fans Qatar would not be persecuted while at the World Cup fals tournament.

”Last month Human Rights Watch reported that Qatar’s preventive secury partment forc had arbrarily arrted lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people and subjected them to ill‑treatment tentn. Qatari doctor and mpaigner Dr Nasser Mohamed told The Guardian ’s safer for gay Qataris not to know each other to prevent law enforcement trackg down “their entire work”. The activist, who liv the US but keeps touch wh gay Qataris, said some who have been ptured were “physilly abed then reced as agents”.

“Now there are agents the gay muny that were promised safety om physil torture exchange for workg for the preventive secury partment and helpg them fd groups of LGBTQ+ people, ” he said. Another harrowg story news report that a gay man was raped by officials after a stg operatn.