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
- 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
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Homosexualy is illegal the nservative Mlim untry, and some soccer stars have raised ncerns over the rights of fans travelg for the event, pecially LGBTQ dividuals and women, whom rights groups say Qatari laws discrimate agast. “Freedom of exprsn and nondiscrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty should be guaranteed, permanently, for all rints of Qatar, not jt spectators gog to Qatar for the World Cup, ” HRW said a anizatn said had terviewed six LGBTQ Qataris, cludg four transgenr women, one bisexual woman and one gay man, who reported beg taed between 2019 and 2022 and subjected to verbal and physil abe, cludg kickg and were taed whout charge an unrground prison Doha, HRW said, and one dividual was held for two months solary nfement.
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. “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.
GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
”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. 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.