Articles about Egypt

14 March 2013
Iran, Russia and Egypt threaten to scupper UN women’s declaration due to gay rights opposition 23 Iran, Russia and Egypt have threatened to derail a UN declaration urging an end to violence against women and girls by objecting to language concerning LGBT rights.
24 January 2013
Egypt: Campaigners say life has gotten worse for gay people since the Arab Spring 11 Despite the hopes of gay people who took part in the 2011 revolution, the climate in Egypt seems to be increasingly homophobic, a human rights group has warned.
2 December 2012
Libya: Gay men speak out about abductions and beatings by Islamic militia 14 Gay men in Libya have spoken out about the largest and most powerful militia brigade, and claim that men have been arrested, and assaulted by them, just for being gay.
6 November 2012
Egypt: 7 men remain detained over anti-gay charges 11 Seven men in Egypt, who were arrested for breaking the country’s law on sexual conduct, are reportedly still in prison.
30 August 2012
Egypt: Leader of “gay sex network” arrested by police 3 Egyptian police have arrested a man from Cairo based on the accusation that he was the head of a "gay sex network".
27 June 2012
Egyptian diplomat suggests gays are ‘not real people’ 46 Egypt’s chief diplomatic representative to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva declared last week at a meeting about the universal right to association that gays do not warrant protections and are considered not to be “real people” in the Middle East.
19 March 2012
Omar Sharif’s grandson comes out over political fears for Egypt 24 The grandson of veteran Egyptian actor Omar Sharif has come out publicly as a gay, half-Jewish man citing fears for his country's political future after the Arab Spring.
31 October 2010
Gay synagogue was target of Yemeni exploding packages plot 5 A lesbian and gay Jewish congregation in Chicago was the target of one of the explosive-laden packages intercepted on route from Yemen, a Rabbi has claimed.

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