Egyptian police and Natnal Secury Agency officers arbrarily arrt lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and ta them human ndns, systematilly subject them to ill-treatment cludg torture, and often ce fellow mat to abe them.
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- GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
- HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG
- ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA
- 'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE
- AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL
- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
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(Beit) – Egyptian police and Natnal Secury Agency officers arbrarily arrt lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and ta them human ndns, systematilly subject them to ill-treatment cludg torture, and often ce fellow mat to abe them, Human Rights Watch said today. Human rights groups have documented wi-sle ab the wake of a September 2017 ncert by the Lebane band Mashrou’ Leila, whose lead sger is openly gay and which performs songs that support sexual and genr diversy.
Police randomly picked up five men bee of what the thori scribed as “feme and gay gtur” and one transgenr woman due to her “abnormal appearance. Four officers then watched him take his cloth off while directg homophobic slurs at him, he said. I was taed a ge unr a stairway [at the prosecutor’s office], wasn’t even a prison cell, [but merely] a 3 by 2-meters ty room, wh 25 gay and transgenr people.
HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG
A gay man scrib the alleged torture he was subjected to at the hands of thori Chechnya, a semi-tonomo regn of Rsia. * gay torcher *
Intifyg as LGTBQI+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, qutng (or: queer), tersex) is punishable by ath ne untri.
The persecutn of the LGBTQI+ muny is more likely to happen untri where homosexual acts are illegal, where homophobia, lbophobia, biphobia and transphobia exist systemilly. This might be bee of cultural, relig or polil bias where the nmnatn of homosexualy and nservative social attus, portray homosexualy as an illns or character flaw.
The laws crimalisg homosexualy enable the e of torture and jtify the systemic wch-hunt of the LGBTQI+ muny Iran. In 2019, Iranian Foreign Mister Mohammed Javad Zarif fend the executn of gay people bee of “moral prcipl.
ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA
Six police officers have been spend after beg acced of beatg and torturg a gay uple for over four hours bee they were homosexual. * gay torcher *
Some human rights activists and opponents of the ernment Iran claim between 4, 000 and 6, 000 gay men and lbians have been executed Iran for crim related to their sexual orientatn sce 1979.
'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE
Chechen officials vehemently ny not only the reported torture of gays, but sometim their very existence. * gay torcher *
The media and relig lears associate homosexualy wh Satanism, and turn, the LGBTQI+ muny are wily discrimated agast.
The law that crimalis homosexualy, subjects spected dividuals to different forms of torture, cludg forced anal examatns, which will supposedly prove if the dividual has performed same-sex acts. There have been many cints of arrts of groups of gay men at certa lotns known by the gay muny. For example, 2018, 25 men were arrted and tortured the the pal cy of Yaoundé after the police raid var stutns popular wh the gay muny.
AS A GAY MAN, I’LL NEVER BE NORMAL
In Cameroon, you n be imprisoned for up to 5 years if you are nvicted of homosexualy.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
In 2017, there was an ‘anti-gay’ purge by Chechnya’s law enforcement. In Nigeria, vilent and systemic homophobia prevents 4 out of 10 homosexual men om accsg healthre, as they are aaid their sexualy will be disvered.
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