Egyptian officials systemilly abe and torture gays, rights group says

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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
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS SYSTEMILLY ABE AND TORTURE GAYS, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

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” 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. 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.

ARRTS AND TORTURE OF GAYS, LBIANS EGYPT ARE ‘SYSTEMATIC,’ RIGHTS REPORT SAYS

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.

For example, the Orthodox Coptic Church anized a nference lled “Volno of Homosexualy, ” followg the Mashrou’ Leila ncert 2017, when ncertgoers unfurled a rabow flag. 3 It refers to the rhetoric that the ll for gay rights dit the existence of a potential “Wtern” nspiracy agast the state. Acrdg to this narrative, the Wt is filtratg Egypt through gay dividuals and works and, therefore, the state has a duty to protect society om the threat.

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

” So there were two fights: there was one happeng at the level of Egyptian society, and another one takg place wh the gay muny wh a lot of them turng agast those who raised the flag. 6 In other leftist parti, there were ternal stggl over the issu, but they were aaid of publicly supportg homosexuals bee they feared they would be lled “khawalat.

It created a whole problem wh leftist parti who began realizg that they were supportg jailed Islamists but not homosexuals. Cambanis: So a secular activist would be willg to speak out agast the tag of an extremist Islamist who don’t even regnize secular rights, but they wouldn’t fend a gay person beg persecuted? They want to enact change very gradually and they do not want to engage a direct nontatn wh society, bee supportg gay rights would amount to such a nontatn.

There are many activists who are closeted gays, but refe to “e out” bee of their fear that will be ed by “Wtern” media to unrme popular uprisgs.

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI

El Hady: That brgs back to the other pot I was discsg regardg the ternal discsns wh the gay muny followg the Mashrou’ Leila ncert. In Egypt, all the human rights anizatns and activists agree that we mt ntextualize gay rights wh the January 25 revolutn.

Among the re group of activists, there were lots of secular activists, gay people, atheists, smopolans—people outsi the tablished lan of inty. Cambanis: How much transnatnal and regnal solidary work or teractn is happeng between people fightg for gay rights Egypt and other Arab untri?

Whether they are activists for relig eedoms or Syrian leftists, there are a whole group of people who end up makg the argument that their unter-narrative to the regime’s narrative of rights is too tenuo to make room for somethg as radil or unpopular as gay rights. But sce the ncert and the events that ensued, there has been a lot of discsn wh the Egyptian left on how to create a space for gay rights.