Gay egypt
Egypt: Homosexuality is legal – but not allowed
Interview with Islam Khalifa, attorney in Cairo
What does the judicial training in Egypt look enjoy and what steps did you personally take to change into a lawyer?
Regulations in Egypt only allows one to habit law after becoming a member of the Bar Association of Egypt or becoming a member of one of the judicial entities. However, no adequate training is given to law practitioners, neither attorneys nor judges, as both the Bar Association and judicial entities have long ago given up their role of producing competent individuals or developing the skills and legal learning of their members. Hence, in the absence of any institutional preparation, it is entirely up to law practitioners whether to evolve and evolve or not, as there is no mentoring in this regard. In fact, it is not at all difficult to get a license to practice regulation in Egypt: the challenging part remains being able to competently handle your case as adv as highlighting questionable laws. The Prevent Association in Egypt, unlike most countries, does not need a mandatory exam or an obligatory postgraduate course for admission. It only requires some documents and a spend
Egypt
LGBTIQ individuals in Egypt continue to experience significant repression and discrimination, aggravated by laws that indirectly target same-sex task. While homosexuality is not explicitly criminalized, vague public morality and debauchery laws are commonly used to arrest individuals. Authorities exploit dating apps such as Grindr to entrap and arrest LGBTQ people, often employing minimal evidence, like possession of condoms or small amounts of cash, to charge them with “habitual debauchery.” As a result, many LGBTQ individuals face jail time, sometimes up to twelve years, under these charges, reflecting the government’s hostility towards LGBTQ persons. The Egyptian government does not provide a formal process for gender diverse individuals to change their legal gender on official documents. While there have been a rare rare instances where transgender people have sought gender-affirming surgeries or legal recognition, these cases are extremely limited and face significant societal and institutional resistance.
Social attitudes towards LGBTIQ people linger highly conservative, with widespread common disapproval reinforced by government policies. Egypt does not offer prote
How Egyptian police track LGBT people on dating apps
Criminal gangs are using the same tactics as the police to find LGBT people. They then ambush and humiliate them, and extort them by threatening to post the videos online.
I managed to track down two people we are calling Laila and Jamal, who were victims of a video that went viral in Egypt a few years ago. The footage shows them organism forced to strip and dance, while being beaten and abused. They are forced at knife point to provide their full names and admit they are gay. They told me the duo behind the video - named Bakar and Yahia - are notorious amongst the collective.
We saw at least four videos in which Bakar and Yahia either appeared, or could be heard, extorting and abusing LGBT people before they uploaded the videos to Whatsapp, YouTube and Facebook. In one of these videos, an 18-year-old gay man we are calling Saeed is forced to, falsely, say he is a sex worker. I met him to notice about what happened next. He told me that he considered legal move but says his lawyer advised against this, telling him his sexuality would be perceived as more of a crime than the attack he suffered.
Saeed is now alienated from his fami
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Last updated: 17 December 2024
Types of criminalisation
- Criminalises LGBT people
- Criminalises sexual activity between males
Summary
Same-sex sexual activity is prohibited under the Penal Code 1937 and Law 10/1961, which criminalises acts of ‘indecency’, ‘scandalous acts’, and ‘debauchery’. These provisions carry a maximum penalty of three years’ imprisonment and a fine. The local representation group Bedayaa reports that, in truths, some are convicted to up to six years in prison. Only men are criminalised under this law.
These laws do not explicitly criminalise same-sex sexual activity but have been enforced, to varying degrees, against the LGBT collective in recent decades. The provisions are of colonial origin, and their vagueness has allowed them to be applied to homosexual sexual activity over time.
There is substantial evidence of the law being enforced in recent years, with LGBT people being frequently subject to arrest, especially since 2013 following an incident in which a pride flag was raised at a concert (see below).