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As is often the case with Sharia laws, not only is the law here inherently unjust by Western standards of personal privacy and separation of religion and state, but it is incredibly prone to being abused to settle personal grudges.
Egypt jails five “homosexuals” for three years (AFP) 9 April 2008
CAIRO - A Cairo court on Wednesday jailed five men, four of them HIV positive, for three years on charges of ”debauchery” linked to homosexuality, a court official told AFP.
The men were arrested three weeks ago in a central Cairo restaurant following an argument after which a client accused them of practising homosexuality.
A police doctor carried out anal inspections on the men “which confirmed their homosexuality,” the court official said. Human Rights Watch said such examinations constitute torture and are medically spurious.
While homosexuality is not included in a list of sexual offences explicitly outlawed by Egypt’s Islamic-inspired legislation, it can be punished under several different laws on morality.
Besides facing widespread public prejudice, Egyptian homosexuals have in the past been jailed on charges ranging from “scorning religion” to “sexual practices contrary to Islam.”
Hafez Abu Saada, of the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights, said the men were prosecuted under 1961 anti-prostitution laws which ”must be changed ... as it’s against the international convention of human rights which Egypt signed in 1986.
“This law is also against the Egyptian constitution which guarantees the right to privacy and individual freedom,” he said.
The men, who can appeal the verdict, were also ordered to pay a small fine.
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Yea, after three years their homosexuality should be cured. NO homosexuality going on in prisons. Posts: 141 | Registered: Apr 2008
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A police doctor carried out anal inspections on the men “which confirmed their homosexuality,”... Posts: 7202 | From: EU | Registered: Nov 2006
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I don't agree with homosexuality, but I would not have arrested them, they did not do anything to anyone else, even if some people think that they commited a morally wrong act. What they did effected them, not all of Egypt. Posts: 384 | Registered: Jan 2008
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What does anal inspection prove about homosexuality!? What if the guy was the pitcher and not the catcher!?? Posts: 13440 | Registered: Feb 2006
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