Gay people livg unr radar Qatar prepare warily for World Cup | Rters

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• 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 PEOPLE LIVG UNR RADAR QATAR PREPARE WARILY FOR WORLD CUP
• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
• INSI THE CHECHEN PRISON WHERE GAY MEN SAY THEY WERE TORTURED
• RSIA ‘HAS SECRETLY OPENED NAZI-STYLE PRISONS WHERE HUNDREDS OF GAY MEN ARE HELD AND SOME MURRED,’ LOL REPORTS CLAIM

GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP

(Beit) – Qatar Preventive Secury Department forc have arbrarily arrted lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and subjected them to ill-treatment tentn, Human Rights Watch said today.

Human Rights Watch terviewed six LGBT Qataris, cludg four transgenr women, one bisexual woman, and one gay man. Doctor Nasser Mohamed, an openly gay Qatari activist, helped nnect Human Rights Watch to five of those terviewed. “I saw many other LGBT people taed there: two Morocn lbians, four Filipo gay men, and one Nepale gay man, ” she said.

A Qatari gay man who has experienced ernment reprsn, cludg arbrary arrt, said that secury forc surveilled and arrted him based on his onle activy. The World Cup will start jt two weeks' time, spe grave ncerns over Qatar's rerd on human rights, wh the Middle East untry ntug to persecute the LGBT+ munyA gay man has claimed he was hunted by police ahead of the upg World CupA gay man who has prevly livg Qatar has claimed he was 'hunted' by the untry's police force before beg gang-raped a hotel room.

GAY QATARIS PHYSILLY ABED THEN RECED AS AGENTS, MPAIGNER SAYS

One of the biggt ncerns about the Middle East untry is s laws which outlaw homosexualy, wh LGBT+ people the untry at risk of imprisonment or even the ath penalty. One gay man om the Philipp who worked Qatar as an office assistant, has told how he was lured to a hotel and gang-raped by police. The man, 'Ali', told the i that he received a msage on a gay datg app om a man claimg to be a Turkish worker.

The police officers then searched his bag, accg him of beg a prostute, before another gay man arrived after also beg lured to a hotel. Acrdg to the report, several other gay men have claimed they were 'hunted' the same way by Qatar's police force. Qatar, officially regnis Islam as the state relign, and unr Sharia law Mlim men n be sentenced to ath by stong for homosexualy.

GAY PEOPLE LIVG UNR RADAR QATAR PREPARE WARILY FOR WORLD CUP

Four transgenr women, one bisexual woman and one gay man were reportedly imprisoned whout charge, legal unsel, or trial, and forced to sign pledg promisg they would “cease immoral activy”. As the first and currently only Qatari to publicly e out as gay, Mohamed­—a doctor who has lived the U. But given homosexualy is crimalized Qatar, he is likely to rema s only member for the foreeable future.

In the months sce, Mohamed lnched the non-prof Alwan Foundatn to advance LGBTQ+ rights across the Middle East and pecially Qatar, where he says that secury operativ filtrate gay muni orr to torture and erce members to rm on others. There are some people om really affluent fai that are gay and ’s almost public knowledge—but they’re really wealthy, affluent, and very nnected, so people jt don’t say anythg. And if such an attack happens on a gay fan, I don’t know of the [secury] rourc to help them.

Bee you uld be harmed, you n be gay bashed, you n be beaten, and people may not be able to help you. In the terpretatn of Sharia law that Qatar follows, sex outsi of marriage, cludg homosexualy, is punishable by jail time and, as a maximum sentence, ath by stong, though there isn’t available evince that such a punishment has ever been ed. Mohamed left Qatar his 20s for medil school “wh the tentn of never g back” bee of the limed life he led as a gay man there.

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

Though there are small pockets of LGBTQ people Qatar, there’s not a gay scene, Mohamed said. “If you’re an expat, you’re able to live your life like you want, ” a gay Arab man livg Doha told Rters. Homosexualy is illegal the untry, and n be punishable by ath, acrdg to Human Digny Tst, a global advocy group for LGBTQ public displays of affectn are owned on even for people who are heterosexual, and women are expected to drs mostly, and be the pany of hbands, not boyiends.

Reports dite that the ath penalty is the sentence for any Qatari cizen ught engagg homosexual activy. The Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn (ILGA) web-se quot Sexualy and Eroticism Among Mal Moslem Societi (Schmt and Sofer, eds., 1991) as statg: "Article 201 of the 1971 Penal Co punish sodomy between nsentg adults (irrpective of sex) wh up to five years imprisonment" (ILGA No date). Department of State reported that an Amerin cizen Qatar was sentenced to six months imprisonment and 90 lash for homosexual activy.

Sourc available to the RIC did not nta rmatn on specific cints of punishment of Qatari cizens unr the sodomy statute, and a reprentative of the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn (ILGA) was not aware of suatns which Qatari cizens had been prosecuted unr the statute.

INSI THE CHECHEN PRISON WHERE GAY MEN SAY THEY WERE TORTURED

But there have been mixed msag wh a World Cup ambassador and former footballer Khalid Salman sayg earlier this month that homosexualy was “damage the md, ” an terview wh German broadster ZDF. He is a regular at England ternatnals and was once the victim of a homophobic asslt, he says, at Wembley four years ago, ahead of England’s match agast Spa 2018, when he had an altertn wh another fan.

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.

“Now there are agents the gay muny that were promised safety om physil torture exchange for workg for the preventive secury partment and helpg them fd groups of LGBTQ+ people. ”Mohamed told the Guardian that foreign gay fans Qatar would not be persecuted while at the World Cup fals tournament. ”Last month Human Rights Watch reported that Qatar’s preventive secury partment forc had arbrarily arrted lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people and subjected them to ill‑treatment tentn.

RSIA ‘HAS SECRETLY OPENED NAZI-STYLE PRISONS WHERE HUNDREDS OF GAY MEN ARE HELD AND SOME MURRED,’ LOL REPORTS CLAIM

PREVIOUS REPORT: 'I'll never get my baby back': Fay of woman killed crash on North Freeway angry over lossHoton police said Sarah Gay was toxited when she drove northbound the southbound lan of the I-45 North Freeway near the Whe Oak ex and h two rs. BERLIN (AP) — Qatar’s ambassador to Germany was urged Monday to abolish his untry’s penalti for homosexualy at a human rights ngrs hosted by the German soccer feratn two months before the Middle East untry stag the World reprentative Dar Mn swched to English to directly addrs the Qatari ambassador, Abdulla b Mohammed b Sd Al Thani, at the ngrs Frankfurt.

”Qatar’s laws and society have e unr creased scty the past law lls for a prison sentence of one to three years for adults nvicted of nsensual gay or lbian sex. State Department warned a report last year that homosexualy remas punishable by ath unr Shariah, or Islamic, law, though there have been no reports of any such executn beg rried out Qatar. Major General Abdulaziz Abdullah Al Ansari, a senr lear overseeg secury for the tournament, prevly told The Associated Prs that rabow flags uld be taken om fans at the World Cup Qatar to protect them om beg attacked for promotg gay Ansari sisted that LGBTQ upl would still be weled and accepted Qatar for the World Cup spe same-sex relatns remag crimalized the nservative Gulf Mn spoke Monday, Al Thani plaed to the ngrs that the issue of human rights was divertg attentn om the tournament.

REUTERS/Fabriz Bensch/ Acquire Licensg RightsDOHA, Nov 19 (Rters) - A group of Arab iends livg Qatar's pal Doha met up over cktails and snacks last week, exchangg opns as they flicked through profil of gay men on datg apps Tr and phone of one flashed wh a msage om a suor around the rner. The man his 20s leapt up om the table, leavg to meet his date iends, who met up days before the soccer World Cup kicks off Qatar on Sunday, are part of a Doha gay scene that's managg to fly unr the radar a natn where same-sex relatns are illegal and punishable by up to three years of jail-time.