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Egypt Sentences Five Men to 3-Year Prison Terms for Being Gay
It's sad that in a worldwide society that some members are still being singled out for their sexaul preferences. I know it is not the same thing, but over in some parts of North America, same sex couples are fighting for right to get married, while in Egypt they are still fighting for the right to be together.
"An Egyptian judicial official says four HIV-positive men have been convicted of being homosexual and sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years of close police supervision. The official says on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press that a fifth man without HIV was also convicted and received the same sentence. The defense lawyer for the five, Adel Ramadan, says the judge convicted the men of the 'habitual practice of debauchery,' a term used in the Egyptian legal system to denote consensual homosexual acts."
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Ashraf El-Attar
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Kuwait
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at 15:55 on April 9th, 2008
amyjudd, Lucky they were not in Iran or they would have got a "suspended sentence".