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Gays in Egypt besieged by wave of suppression

Police in Cairo have escalated arrests of gay men and alleged HIV-positive men who meet in public on streets around the city. Although homosexuality is not illegal, human rights advocates and independent observers have commented on the arrests as a symbolic show of force by governments "to out-moralize Islamic parties that have denounced the perceived depravity of Arab societies," writes Daniel Williams, a reporter for Bloomberg News. Read more about this story in a reprint in the International Herald Tribune.

Earlier coverage of this subject can be found in a substantial New York Times article with the sensational headline, "Prisoners of Sex" by Negar Azimi, the senior editor of Bidoun Magazine. Azimi writes, "There are no gay bars in Cairo, so coffee shops and the Qasr el-Nil Bridge are popular meeting spots." Photo: Qasr el-Nil Bridge by Ziyah Gafic, 2006, courtesy of the New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/magazine/03arabs.html Police in Cairo have escalated arrests of gay men and alleged HIV-positive men who meet in public on streets around the city. Although... more

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