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George punched out Thompson will join the European Union this year. on June 20, 2002, and later said Thompson had provoked him and deserved to be smacked. EGYPT he Egyptian governm ent continues to arrest and torture men suspected of having ay pop singer George Michael blasted British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the gay sex, Human Rights Watch said March 1. According to the group’s report In a Time of March 1 issue of the magazine The Big Issue. Torture: The Assault on Justice in Egypt’s Crack- “I can’t imagine what it feels like for people who lost their kids [in the Iraq war] to hear down on Homosexual Conduct, the trial of 52 men in 2001 for “habitual practice of debauch Tony Blair’s pathetic little Heatings that he still thinks the world is a safer place. It’s dis ery"— the charge used to criminalize gay sex— “was only the most visible point in the ongoing respectful,” M ichael said. “I wish to G od that and expanding crackdown.” the Labor Party had the guts to get rid of Blair, “Tixlay, Egyptian police use wiretaps and a because it could survive another election w ith growing web of informers to conduct raids on out him. I think it’s too im portant for world private homes or seize suspects on the street,” affairs that h e ’s gone. I think globally he is a dangerous man. He is an altruist who thinks the organization said. “U ndercover police agents arrange meetings with men through chat h e ’s doing everything for the best, but he can rooms and personal advertisements on the Inter not face up to his own ego.” net— and then arrest them." Michael caused controversy in 2002 with the T he 144-page report quotes arrestees saying video for his song “Shoot the Dog,” which they were tied up, suspended in painful posi depicts President Bush as an imbecile and Blair tions, burned with cigarettes, submerged in icy as his ptxxlle/hoyfriend. water and subjected to electroshock on their limbs, tongues and penis- es. O ther prisoners have been encouraged to rape the gay suspects, accord ing to the report. "They took telephone wire and wrapped it around my fingers, my toes, my ear, my penis,” one victim said. “It was connected to a kind of telephone they cranked up by hand to produce the sfuxrks, and it was like George Michael’s “Shoot the Dog’’ video took aim at President Bush death.” as well as British Prime M inister Tony Blair and his wife, Chcrie C rfe/ifft it remodel n /euiiny si custom furniture G T C
