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Public Prosecutor Nabil Sadek ordered the State Security Prosecution, which normally investigates terrorism and other national security threats, to investigate the flag incident.Īt least four people, including Hegazy and 21-year-old Ahmed Alaa, were arrested for allegedly raising the flag although one man has since been released. One church organized an anti-gay conference. 22, at a concert packed with 30,000 people headlined by Mashrou’ Leila, a Lebanese alternative rock band whose lead singer is openly gay, a small group of concert goers raised a rainbow flag and, within hours, the image went viral.Īlmost immediately local media, dominated by state-aligned television personalities, began a campaign against homosexuals, saying they were receiving foreign funding, and hosting callers who compared their threat to Islamic State.Įgypt’s media regulator then banned homosexuals from appearing in the media unless they were “repenting”, calling homosexuality a “shame and a disease that should be kept under wraps, not promoted” in order to protect public morality.Īl-Azhar, Egypt’s 1,000-year-old center of Islamic learning, said it would stand against gays in the way it stands against Islamist extremists.
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Ten men have already gone on trial during the recent sweep and received jail sentences from one to six years. Police, state-aligned media, and the religious establishment all see it as a public duty to combat the spread of homosexuality.
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Judicial sources do not deny the examinations take place but say they are legally carried out and are not a form of abuse.Įgyptian authorities do not deny going after gays and an investigation report provided to Reuters by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) openly refers to the police’s campaign on homosexuals. Suspected gay male detainees are subject to forced anal exams to determine if they have had homosexual sex, a procedure human rights groups say amounts to torture.Īt least five such examinations have taken place, Amnesty International says. Lawyers for other detainees said their clients faced similar treatment. She was beaten,” said Hegazy’s lawyer Hoda Nasralla.Ī security official would not comment on Hegazy’s case but denied that police incite prisoners against each other or otherwise mistreat them. I saw scratches on her shoulder, she looked very disheveled and exhausted. They incite the other detainees and say ‘this girl wants men and women to be gay’ so they harass her. “This is the game they (police) always play, especially since she is a girl. Hegazy, the only woman rounded up in the three-week-old campaign, says police goaded her cellmates to abuse her during her first night in prison, where she is being detained for 15 days and interrogated by special prosecutors who usually focus on Islamist militants. The crackdown comes as Egypt, a key Western ally in the Middle East, is under fire for its human rights record and the United States has withheld some of its $1.3 billion in annual military aid. The 28-year-old denies waving the flag but is one of 57 people arrested so far in Egypt’s widest anti-gay crackdown yet, a swift zero-tolerance response to a rare show of public support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in the conservative Muslim country. FILE PHOTO:Hamed Sinno (L), the lead singer of Lebanese alternative rock band Mashrou' Leila performs during the Ehdeniyat International Festival in Ehden town, Lebanon August 12, 2017.