The Human Rights Commtee this morng nclud s nsiratn of the fifth perdic report of Egypt on how implements the provisns of the Internatnal Covenant on Civil and Polil Rights, wh Commtee Experts mendg progrs on battg discrimatn, and raisg issu ncerng police treatment of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex persons and judicial pennce, particularly regardg Terrorism Circu Courts.
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- EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS SYSTEMILLY ABE AND TORTURE GAYS, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
- ARRTS AND TORTURE OF GAYS, LBIANS EGYPT ARE ‘SYSTEMATIC,’ RIGHTS REPORT SAYS
- IN DIALOGUE WH EGYPT, EXPERTS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMTEE COMMEND MEASUR COMBATTG DISCRIMATN, RAISE ISSU CONCERNG TREATMENT OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND INTERSEX PERSONS AND JUDICIAL INPENNCE
EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS SYSTEMILLY ABE AND TORTURE GAYS, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
LGBT Rights Egypt: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * egypt and lgbt *
Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (other penalty)Gay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedCensorship✖ Imprisonment as punishmentChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned.
HistoryHomosexual activy Egypt? Homosexual activy Egypt is illegal (other penalty). Illegal As homosexualy is illegal, servg the ary is also illegal.
Blood donatns by MSMs Egypt is banned (fe ferral) (fe ferral) Homosexual activy is illegal, therefore MSM blood donatn is not accepted. N/A Age of Consent is unequal/applible practice, same-genr sexual behavr is punished by ernmental offils, meang that both age and nsent are irrelevant to the illegaly of homosexualy Egypt.
ARRTS AND TORTURE OF GAYS, LBIANS EGYPT ARE ‘SYSTEMATIC,’ RIGHTS REPORT SAYS
“The crackdown awakened the homophobia of the mass," one Egyptian man said. "People are cheerg for the arrts of the gays.” * egypt and lgbt *
” The report’s ma fdgs clu arbrary arrts of people thought to be LGBTQ; entrapment of gay and bisexual men through social workg and datg apps; and torture and prolonged tament of sexual and genr mori state ctody. Their acunts allege systemic abe throughout the judicial system Egypt, one of approximately 70 untri around the globe that crimaliz homosexualy — whether explicly or jt but three of those prosecuted went by psdonyms the report, for fear of retaliatn by Egyptian thori. Egypt is one of seven untri that forced anal exams to “prove” a person’s homosexualy, acrdg to Human Rights Ahmed, a 27-year-old transgenr man arrted 2019 and released last month, was placed a women’s prison where he was given an ID rd that said “female” and nied his genr-affirmg treatment, acrdg to the report.
A change powerWhile LGBTQ people have long been subjected to homophobia and transphobia Egypt, Youn said the suatn worsened after s current print, Abl-Fattah el-Sissi, took power 2014. ”A major turng pot me September 2017 followg a ncert Cairo by Lebane band Mashrou’ Leila, whose lead sger is openly gay. Homosexualy is not explicly a crime Egypt, acrdg to Pla Gerber, a human rights law profsor at Monash Universy Atralia.
Government monorgYoun said Egyptian thori actively monor social media and cy streets to crackdown on LGBTQ people and others who are prottg or anizg for civil rights, all of which are labeled as subversn or even Rights Watch said police will set up fake profil masqueradg as gay men on datg apps like Grdr and social media platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp an attempt to meet public or learn the nam and meetg plac of other queer people for future raids and arrts.
IN DIALOGUE WH EGYPT, EXPERTS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMTEE COMMEND MEASUR COMBATTG DISCRIMATN, RAISE ISSU CONCERNG TREATMENT OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND INTERSEX PERSONS AND JUDICIAL INPENNCE
Queer people will often talk for months onle before agreeg to meet public, bee — addn to police — they know that rapists, thiev and blackmailers also target gay men on the apps, knowg they won’t go to police if they’re attacked, acrdg to Human Rights Watch.
Increasgly, he said, Egyptian lears are parrotg “moral” and psdoscientific rhetoric ed by Christian nservativ the Wt, accg queer people of recg children and stroyg humany or claimg homosexualy as a disease or mental illns that harms the immune system and fects said the Egyptian ernment regularly ni reports of human rights ab as pletely fabrited. To the world, you’ve been greatly cel, but I five, ” Hegazy wrote the note, which was published part The New York attend a memorial for Sarah Hegazy Amsterdam on June 19, Arroyo Fernanz / NurPhoto via Getty ImagKhalid said queer Egyptians worldwi share a sense of shock and trma around her story, knowg n happen to themselv and their said supporters of LGBTQ rights — whether private dividuals or ernment officials — have a role to play protectg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people enurag the ternatnal muny to support, promote and empower Egyptian LGBTQ anizatns by helpg to provi fundg and secure platforms where they n nnect and anize. Although do not explicly crimalize same-sex relatns, was ed to jtify the arrt and subsequent imprisonment of gay men begng the 1990s and other LGBTQ persons later on.
” In the wake of the Mashrou’ Leila ncert 2017, members of Egypt’s parliament proposed a draft law that would have crimalized acts of homosexualy more explicly, as well as acts of support for the LGBTQ muny; the law was never passed.