TAG: Egypt
On being transgender in Egypt
Aisha* was sleeping when her apartment was raided. She and three other friends had just moved in when the police came by asking if they had weapons or anything illegal. They said no, and were asked for their identity cards. Aisha and her friends are transgender women, but their identity cards say they are male. When the […]
Read moreScott Long: Tweet for Egypt on IDAHOT: Why it’s important
It’s the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOT, for short). Here’s one important thing you can do. Tweet, or post on Facebook, or write on your blog with a message of support for trans and gay and lesbian Egyptians. Use the hashtags #Antihomophobia, or in Arabic #ضد_رهاب_المثلية . Or the hashtag #انا_مش_مجرم_انا_مختلف — in English, it’s #Am_not_aCriminal_Am_just_Different […]
Read moreDeport me
Scott Long writes about the case involving a Libyan student whom police expelled from Egypt in 2008, after a complaint that he was gay, which gained high visibility in the Western gay and mainstream media in April 2015. Read more here.
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Scott Long: Deport me
Taken from A paper bird Posted on 18 April 2015 So they’re going to deport gay foreigners from Egypt. My phone started ringing a few mornings ago, reporters wanting comments: solicitous but always with a subtext of What’s going to happen to you? I don’t know. The case involves a Libyan student whom police expelled from […]
Read moreEgyptian Court Acquits 26 Men Charged With “Debauchery”
A Cairo court acquitted 26 men of charges of participating in a gay “sex party” at a public bathhouse in December. Click here, here and here to learn more about the importance of the decision.
Read moreEgypt’s Appalling Crackdown on Gays
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD JAN. 5, 2015 Even if they were acquitted on the ludicrous charge of “debauchery,” the 26 Egyptian men on trial in the government’s latest crackdown on gays are likely to suffer a lifetime of public scorn. Over the past two years, there has been no shortage of travesties and injustices in […]
Read moreScott Long: Dozens arrested for “perversion” in a huge raid in Cairo
At about 10 PM last night, December 7, police carried out a massive raid on ahammam (bathhouse) in the Ramsis area of Cairo, not far from the main railway station. They arrested many men — dozens, reportedly — and hauled them, stripped naked like concentration-camp inmates, to the trucks. Someone living nearby who watched the assault wrote on social media that “police together […]
Read moreSolidarity with Egypt LGBT
Human rights groups are calling for a protest on 18 October 2014 in front of every Egyptian embassy around the world to protest against human rights violations committed by the Egyptian government. Learn more about it.
Read moreEgypt: 7 Held for Alleged Homosexual Conduct
Unlawful Arrests Undermine Basic Freedoms, Rule of Law SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities should immediately release seven men arrested on September 6, 2014 for allegedly “inciting debauchery,” Human Rights Watch said today. Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat ordered the men detained and “physically examined” after an online video emerged showing the men attending what […]
Read moreEgypt Has a Sexual Violence Problem
Read New York Times article about a fierce battle raging in Egypt beyond that one between Islamists and military rulers: the battle “between the patriarchy — established and upheld by the state, the street and at home — and women, who will no longer accept this status quo”. Click here.
Read moreEgyptian police ‘using rape as a weapon’ against dissident groups
The Guardian brings information on the dissemination of rape as a practice used by Egyptian police against arrested dissidents. Read more.
Read moreThe Security Archipelago
The Introduction chapter of Paul Amar book, “The Security Archipelago”, has been published online by Duke University Press, for free access. Feel free to check it out and circulate the link!! SPW strongly recommends!
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