TIME speaks to Dr. Naser Mohamed, the first and currently only Qatari to publicly e out as gay, ahead of the World Cup.
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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
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 * gay arrested in qatar *
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.
GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
“A lot [of gay Qataris] don’t know about each other, ” Mohamed said.