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.
Contents:
- EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS SYSTEMILLY ABE AND TORTURE GAYS, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
- LIVG FEAR: EGYPT’S GAY MUNY
- ARRTS AND TORTURE OF GAYS, LBIANS EGYPT ARE ‘SYSTEMATIC,’ RIGHTS REPORT SAYS
EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS SYSTEMILLY ABE AND TORTURE GAYS, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
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But even though there are no laws that explicly crimalize homosexualy, they e the existg bchery laws orr to crimalize .
LIVG FEAR: EGYPT’S GAY MUNY
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. * lgbt community in egypt *
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.
ARRTS AND TORTURE OF GAYS, LBIANS EGYPT ARE ‘SYSTEMATIC,’ RIGHTS REPORT SAYS
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.
What was very paful was that there were members of the gay muny who basilly adopted this narrative as well. ” 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.