Egypt Court Declar Filmg of ‘Gay Cairo Bathhoe Raid’ as ‘Servg Public Intert’ | Egyptian Streets

Contents:

• GAY CAIRO
• EGYPTIAN POLICE ARRT, HUIATE 'GAY' MEN AT CAIRO BATHHOE
• EGYPT ARRTS 25 MEN GAY BATHHOE RAID
• GAY BATHHO NEAR ME
• BEG A GAY MAN EGYPT IS 'TERRIFYG AND THRILLG'
• GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND
• JOURNALIST BEHD ‘GAY BATH HOE’ RAID SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS JAIL
• CAIRO BATH HOE RAID: HOW EGYPT EXPLOS ANTI-GAY SENTIMENT
• EGYPT COURT DECLAR FILMG OF ‘GAY CAIRO BATHHOE RAID’ AS ‘SERVG PUBLIC INTERT’

GAY CAIRO

You've probably heard of the "Cairo 52" se om 2001, when a group of 52 men were arrted at a gay party the "Queen Boat" moored on the Nile. Dpe terventn by ternatnal human rights anizatns, the suatn for homosexuals remas que alarmg the untry, wh arrt and torture beg mon practice. Everyone ss people-watchg om the sofas as they enjoy specialty cktails, and this is where you're most likely to fd a discreet mix of straight and gay.

No hotel Cairo advertis self as gay-iendly, but the large chas do attract wealthy gay upl, pecially those lookg out to the pyramids and offerg all sorts of pamperg servic such as spa and fns center. A Cairo mismeanour urt acquted on Monday 26 fendants acced of “bchery” after receivg a tip that they were holdg a “gay bath hoe y”.

EGYPTIAN POLICE ARRT, HUIATE 'GAY' MEN AT CAIRO BATHHOE

Egyptian laws do not clearly ban homosexualy, yet Article 9 of the 1961 Anti-Prostutn Law punish those guilty of “cg bchery and immoraly” by imprisonment for a perd rangg om three to five years.

EGYPT ARRTS 25 MEN GAY BATHHOE RAID

Egypt has recently clamped down on homosexual activi, arrtg September eight men who appeared a Youtube vio pictg an alleged homosexual marriage ceremony.

The anisatn nmned the Egyptian thori’ “persecutn” of men “spected of homosexual nduct” a statement released on September 9. In 2001, 52 men were arrted Egypt after the police raid a Nile boat rtrant where the men were said to be engagg a “gay sex party”, dubbed as the Queen Boat Trials.

Twenty-six men acced of mtg bchery a Cairo bathhoe have been found nocent, an unexpected move that follows a year-long crackdown on gay people men were seized om the baths and dragged half-naked to wag police tcks early December, an event that achieved worldwi notoriety after beg filmed and broadst by a televisn Mona Iraqi said she had ordated the arrts wh police officers as part of an unsympathetic seri about gay activy Egypt. Fai of the men nied their relativ were homosexual, but rights activists feared they had been targeted as part of a seri of arrts of allegedly gay men om hom, bathho and a rult, a guilty verdict was expected on Monday, and there was joyo panmonium urt when the judge stead acquted the fendants.

GAY BATHHO NEAR ME

Neher was homosexualy, which is not explicly a crime Egypt; stead, allegedly gay people are often prosecuted on charg related to immoraly or Long, an amic and rights activist who has documented rights ab (pdf) agast gay people Egypt for more than a , said: “I was pletely surprised by what happened. Lawyers succsfully claimed that police officers fabrited their evince, and poted out that the three men who ernment forensics specialists claimed may have been passive sexual partners were acced the police’s acunt of beg active rights mpaigners, the acqutals were a small victory a wir battle agast state reprsn of gay people. Egyptian police raid a bathhoe Cairo Sunday night, paradg between 25 and 40 terrified, naked, allegedly gay male patrons outsi to wag vans and arrtg them for "perversn" and "bchery, " acrdg to multiple media BBC said 33 men were arrted, while ABC News reported there were 25 arrts.

Wrer and longtime human rights worker Stt Long's blog, A Paper Bird, put the number at homosexualy is not technilly illegal Egypt, thori have equently ed an "antibchery" law to persecute and prosecute LGBT Egyptians.

BEG A GAY MAN EGYPT IS 'TERRIFYG AND THRILLG'

"The bathhoe owner is acced of turng the facily to a se of immoral and cent nduct and group homosexualy, " lol head prosecutor, Mohamed Hetta, told Agence France-Prse. The lln, Long speculated, is tend to set the stage for purg of ternal enemi of the current print, while also promulgatg the ongog war agast the posed Mlim a breathtakg show of propagandist acrobatics, the Sisi regime has tried to lk the Mlim Brotherhood to homosexualy, spe the fact that oted print Mohammed Morsi -- the Brotherhood lear mocratilly elected 2012 -- was no iend to LGBT Egyptians. " Even Grdr, the ubiquo gay hookup app, had to disable s GPS functn Egypt September bee thori were g to entrap gay men.

GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND

Dpe "ttg negative" for homosexualy and claimg the whole thg was a joke, eight of the acced were sentenced to three years jail, found guilty of "spreadg cent imag and cg bchery.

"A Paper Bird lked s reportage of the Sunday night's raid to two "expos" on the "problem" of homosexualy that recently aired at pro-ernment media outlets. One of the expos, published by VetoGate, pats pestrian stereotyp of gay people wh broad strok that would be lghable if they weren't so harmful to LGBT people livg the Miast 's an excerpt of that article:You will fd that each and every one has a name different om his origal name, by which they ll each other.

JOURNALIST BEHD ‘GAY BATH HOE’ RAID SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS JAIL

CAIRO — Egyptian secury forc raid a bathhoe and arrted 25 men spected of homosexualy, draggg them naked out of the buildg downtown Cairo, an official said Monday. The raid is part of an ongog crackdown on gay men and after an Egyptian urt last month nvicted eight men on charg of “cg bchery” followg their appearance an alleged same-sex weddg party on a Nile boat, sentencg each to three years’ imprisonment.

Egyptian law do not explicly prohib nsensual same-sex relatns but prosecut and imprisons gay men on charg such as “bchery” and “shamels public acts. He said the bathhoe owner, an unintified 60-year-old man, was spected of rentg the place out specifilly to homosexuals. The crackdown on homosexuals, and also on atheists, go hand hand wh a wir mpaign agast all forms of dissent, both by liberal and Islamist polil groups.

In April, four men were nvicted and sentenced to eight years prison each for “bchery” after allegedly holdg parti that volved homosexual acts and where women’s clothg and makp were found. In 2001, Egypt ma headl around the world when 52 men were arrted a police raid on a Nile boat rtrant and acced of takg part a gay sex party.

CAIRO BATH HOE RAID: HOW EGYPT EXPLOS ANTI-GAY SENTIMENT

Image source, RtersImage ptn, There are few tradnal bathho, or hammams, still operatg the Egyptian palEgyptian police have raid a bathhoe central Cairo and arrted 33 men on spicn of "bchery" - a charge that has been ed agast gay people. Last month eight men were jailed for "cg bchery'' after vio of an alleged gay weddg went men face jail terms if nvicted.

EGYPT COURT DECLAR FILMG OF ‘GAY CAIRO BATHHOE RAID’ AS ‘SERVG PUBLIC INTERT’

Police raids on Egyptian gay venu have risen recent 33 were arrted "for practisg bchery", General Ali al-Demerdash, head of the Cairo secury directorate, those arrted was the bathhoe owner, AFP reports. "The bathhoe owner is acced of turng the facily to a se of immoral and cent nduct and group homosexualy", the agency quot Mohamed Hetta, head of the lol prosecutn office, as groups have nmned Egypt's treatment of gay people, particular the e of anal ttg to terme whether people are 's biggt arrt of homosexuals was 2001, when 52 men were arrted at nightclub on the Nile central on this story. Image source, RtersImage ptn, The fendants attempted to ver their fac as they were brought to the urtroomA urt Egypt has cleared 26 men arrted last month a raid on a bathhoe Cairo and charged wh "cg bchery" trial had been seen as part of a mpaign by the Egyptian thori agast the untry's homosexuals.

Egyptian law do not crimalise homosexual acts, but they rema spected of engagg nsensual homosexual nduct are equently arrted on charg of bchery, immoraly or blasphemy. Five of them - the owner of the bathhoe and four staff members - were tried for facilatg "parti of bchery, i among male homosexuals" exchange for money. Analysis: John McMan, social affairs reporter, BBC NewsIt is not illegal to be homosexual or engage homosexual acts Egypt.

But the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) says the charge of "bchery" is often ed to crack down on homosexual activy the untry. "Media ptn, #BBCtrendg [Broadst Sept 2014]: Arrt orr after 'gay marriage' vioSeveral of the men have said they plan to pursue legal actn agast the Egyptian TV prenter, Mona al-Iraqi, who claimed she triggered the raid on the bathhoe on 7 December by tippg off the police about what was happeng there.