Egyptian police create fake dating profiles to target LGBT people

in news •  2 years ago 

"In Egypt, homosexuality is highly stigmatised, and there have long been allegations that police are hunting LGBT people online. Now BBC News has seen evidence of how the authorities are using dating and social apps to do this."
https://news.yahoo.com/egyptian-police-hunt-lgbtq-people-220833279.html

"While Egypt has no law explicitly banning homosexuality, investigators for BBC News have found that the country’s crime of “debauchery,” a law targeting sex work, has been used to target and criminalize the normal lives of LGBT Egyptians. The journalists reviewed transcripts that show undercover officers posing as LGBT singles online and on dating apps and pressuring people who ‘match’ and message with them to meet them in person or exchange pictures."
https://thecrimereport.org/2023/01/30/bbc-investigation-puts-spotlight-on-dating-app-stings-targeting-lgbt-egyptians/

**Egyptian police create fake dating profiles to target LGBT people **
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/01/30/egyptian-police-create-fake-dating-profiles-target-lgbt-people/

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