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EGYPT
T
he Emergency State
Security Court in Cairo
delivered its sentences
Nov. 14 in the cases of the
52 men detained since May
because of alleged homosex
ual activity.
A total of 23 were sen
tenced to between one and
five years of hard labor, and
29 were acquitted. The de
fendants, who cannot ap
peal, wept and screamed in
side a courtroom cage as the
verdicts were handed down.
The men were charged
with obscene behavior and
contempt for religion.
Police say they were arrest
ed May 11 in and around
the gay club Queen Boat.
Activists maintain many of them were
nowhere near the bar when they were taken
into custody. According to the International
Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission,
“There are enough irregularities in the arrests
and handling of this case to suggest that the
Cairo 52 may have been framed.”
William Schulz, Amnesty International
USA executive director, said: “The proceedings
against these men were egregious on many levels.
Not only did their trial likely violate basic inter
national legal standards, we are also extremely
concerned at reports of torture or ill treatment
during the first few days of detention and the
denial of access to families and attorneys."
Joe Stork, Washington director of the Mid
dle East and North Africa division of Human
Rights Watch, added, “The government prose
cuted these men in an unfair trial, apparently in
order to distract public attention from their own
unpopular policies, and to placate conservative
elements in Egyptian society.”
IG LH RC called on Egypt President Hosni
Mubarak to pardon the men sentenced to
hard labor.
“We are very chilled by the hard labor sen
tences,” executive director Surina Khan said.
“Having received numerous testimonies of
heatings and abuse of the Cairo 52 while in
detention, we can only imagine what awaits
them now.”
Among other abuses, the authorities subject
ed the men to anal probes, ostensibly to deter
mine whether they had engaged in intercourse.
“We are concerned for the acquitted as well,”
IGLHRC’s Scott Long added. “We call for their
immediate release and ask President Mubarak to
issue a clear directive to the prosecution not to
appeal their acquittals.”
Sherif Farahat, alleged to be the group’s leader,
was sentenced to five years of hard labor for
debauchery, contempt for religion, falsely inter
preting the Koran and exploiting Islam to promote
deviant ideas. Another man was sentenced to
three years of hard labor for contempt for religion.
A total o f 20 men were sentenced to two
years of hard labor for obscene behavior, and
one man was sentenced to one year of hard
labor for obscene behavior. A teen-ager, tried
earlier in juvenile court, was sentenced to
three years in prison Sept. 18.
The International Lesbian and Gay Associa
tion denounced the verdicts and
threatened retaliation.
“ILGA-Europe will again
write to European Commis
sioner Chris Patten, responsi
ble for external relations, and
the Belgian EU presidency
urging them to intensify the
European U nion’s pressure on
Egypt to stop these human A a r o n W e bste r
rights violations and to appeal to President
Mubarak to immediately pardon the 23 people
convicted,” co-chairman Kurt Krickler said.
“We will also call upon the European Parlia
ment not to ratify the Euro-Mediterranean
agreement recently signed between the EU
and Egypt.”
According to the international gay Muslim
organization Al-Fatiha, “The trial represented
the worst aspects of the Egyptian judicial sys
tem.” Founder Faisal Alam said, “Even after
hearing the many discrepancies in this case, the
Egyptian State Security Court refused to
acknowledge the truth: the fact that these men
did nothing wrong.”
Meanwhile, IGLHRC reported Nov. 15 that
four more men were arrested under identical
charges Nov. 10 in the Cairo suburb of Giza.
They allegedly had turned their aparrment into
a “den of perversion.” One of the men reported
ly was stripped, hung up in his cell, splashed
with
cold water and beaten after his arrest.
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“This new case is eerily similar to the
Cairo 52 case,” Long said. “Presumed homosex
uals arrested at random under the same
law...beaten in prison and vilified by the media
while police fabricate facts that do not add up. It
is becoming clearer that persecution of homo
sexuals is a major human rights issue in Egypt."
COLOMBIA
same-sex civil union hill was introduced
Nov. 7 in Colombia’s Senate and passed
out of committee Nov. 21 by a 9-1 vote.
The measure extends marriage rights to reg
istered couples in areas such as inheritance,
insurance, immigration, social security, loans,
bereavement leave, health care decisions, con
jugal visits, alimony and domestic violence pro
tection. It also bans discrimination and incite
ment of discrimination based on sexual orienta
tion or identity, mandates objective gay sex edu
cation in schools and requires municipal health
departments to address homosexuality and
cooperate with nongovernmental organizations
that work on sexual diversity issues.
A
CANADA
gay man was found murdered Nov. 17 in
Vancouver’s Stanley Park, one of North
America’s cruisiest locations.
In an apparent hate crime, Aaron Webster,
41, was beaten with probably a base
ball hat by three or four assailants,
police said. "This has all the earmarks
of an attack that was prompted by the
man’s sexual orientation,” spokesman
Scott Dreimal said.
No suspects have been identified.
Four witnesses to the assault said it was
too dark to make out anything about
the attackers.
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