[Foundation-l] Reboot on LGBT/Egypt issue (was Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2008 will happen in Alexandria, Egypt)

[MeMo]

OK  .. people
   there is something that i need to clarify
you r talking like once a gay man enters the an Egyptian airport he will be
arrested 'for being gay' the imprisoned and tortured .. i must say that this
is TOTALY wrong.
the only case that a gay or a straight person might get arrested is for
doing a direct sexual act in a public place - a street or instance - and
this apply to both heterosexual and homosexuals a like .. other than that
there is no problem if you already have a partner.
as renting a hotel room with you partner or holding his hand is no problem
at all simply because those acts are common in Egypt ..
men do hold each others hand and friends do rent rooms together without
being considered gay or harassing them in any mean .


On 10/14/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> Oldak Quill wrote:
> > On 14/10/2007, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> What I would like to see, however, are some statistics, not anecdotes,
> on the real risk GLBT
> >> visitors* to Egypt will face. If those aren't forthcoming, then I don't
> think further discussion
> >> will be particularly useful.
> >>
> > Four non-Egyptians (read foreigners) were put on trial in Egypt for
> > homosexuality in 2003. Three were acquitted on appeal and one was sent
> > to prison for a year (http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=&id=205)
> > (http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=&id=198).
> It seems as though there is more to this than simply being gay.  As you
> say three of the four were acquitted in this 2003 incident, but I see
> nothing in the articles to show how this one differed from his
> colleagues.  The impression that I get from reading these articles is
> that I am not getting a whole story.
>
> Ec
>
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