The Trap Punishing sexual difference in Egypt

Source: Egyptian Initiative For Personal Rights
Author(s): Dalia Abdel Hamid, Ahmed Mahrous, Alaa Farouk, Adel Ramadan

Original Link: https://eipr.org/sites/default/files/reports/pdf/the_trap-en.pdf

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

In this report, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, documents a four-year period in which Egyptian police have escalated a targeted crackdown on people whose sexualities or sexual practices, actual or perceived, differ from those considered normative in Egyptian society. Especially if they were homosexual or men who practice sex with men, or those suspected as such, or transgender persons. It is the campaign which reached its climax last month, with the arrest of more than 75 people against the backdrop of the ‘waving the rainbow flag’ incident. The flag known as a symbol of diversity and accepting different sexual orientation and gender identities, was waved during a concert in one of the malls in Cairo. The report tries to clarify that the late campaign, which garnered the attention of International Rights NGOs and global media, is nothing but a link in the systematic targeting that this report is trying to document…

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