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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- 'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE
- HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG
- 9 BARBARIC AND BTAL EXPERIMENTS AND TTS GOVERNMENTS PERFORMED ON GAY PEOPLE
- ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA
- GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE
At least eight untri allow tts where doctors perate men acced of beg gay. The ternatnal muny needs to stand up to this abe. * gay tourture *
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.
HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG
* gay tourture *
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. 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.
9 BARBARIC AND BTAL EXPERIMENTS AND TTS GOVERNMENTS PERFORMED ON GAY PEOPLE
Chechen officials vehemently ny not only the reported torture of gays, but sometim their very existence. * gay tourture *
In Cameroon, you n be imprisoned for up to 5 years if you are nvicted of homosexualy.
ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA
In 2017, there was an ‘anti-gay’ purge by Chechnya’s law enforcement. Men spected to be gay were round up, taed and tortured. 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.
GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
Our rearch has found that the last five years, medil practners at least eight untri -- Cameroon, Egypt, Kenya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and Zambia -- have nducted such "tts" on men and transgenr women acced of homosexual, sometim armed wh a prosecutor's orr, take "spects" to a forensic doctor or a general practner, who serts fgers and sometim objects to the an to terme s "tone.