LGBTI foreigners can now be deported or banned from entering Egpyt
LGBTI foreigners may now legally be deported from聽Egypt or banned from entry after a recent聽administrative court ruling.
The Egyptian Ministry of Interior has聽been granted the right to deport and ban “homosexual foreigners” in order to “protect public interest and religious and social values”, according to reports attributing an anonymous judicial official.
The decision came after the court upheld the right to bar an聽allegedly-gay Libyan citizen from returning to the country, revealing it was well in the boundaries of the law to do so.
The defendant, who has lived in Egypt on a tourist visa since 2006, contested the decision, claiming that it would interrupt his studies at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport. However, the Court ruled in favour of the ministry.
While homosexuality is not explicitly illegal聽in Egypt, authorities are accusing and cracking down on LGBTI citizens via the聽supposed abuse聽of public decency laws, scorning religion or “debauchery”.
The court’s decision comes after a recent surge in the persecution of LGBTI Egyptian citizens, such as , and the arrest of 26 men after 聽in December.
The crackdown on the Egyptian LGBTI community has resulted in compulsory medical examinations and聽prison sentences of up to eight聽years.
While the bathhouse accused , the men were all cleared of charges in January.
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Can we start to deport haters/bigots – such as Tony Abbott, Cory Benardi, and Fred Nile to both Nauru and Christmas Island too!
But they’re all married Paul (Fred recently for the second time). If they’re all gone who will we have to be equal to?
Great I wanted to go there and as a pre-op transsexual woman guess I won’t be able to know
I would never go there! Screw that
Who the fuck wants to go there anyway ?
They are in De-Nile .. Get it?
Reference to Fred Nile!
Egypt is a shit-hole anyway. It was nice to visit in the BC times, but now it’s has became a bit rundown and old.
Omg Ashlee
so did I! I said to Chris on Tuesday our next holiday should be Egypt I wanna see pyramids
Maybe we will have to go the four of us and pretend each other is our partners to trick then ahaha
I’ve been telling
ash for ages that it’s one place I would love to go see … That sounds like a plan lol I like that idea..!!
Yeah I’m over islands there pretty much all the same I just want to see the ancient ruins and pyramids I think it will be Awesome and they won’t be around forever there already really damaged from erosion too! We must go! Next year maybe?
Yeh maybe we will have to speak to ash about it
I like the sound of that, I’m just worried about wars
Looks like we can’t go to Egypt now lol Christopher Kavanagh
well you know where they can shove their pyramids, let alone their sphinx
I really wanted to go to Egypt too
That’s fine. I’ll spend my tourist money else where.
Lol how are they going to sort the gays from the straights?! “Sorry sir you’re to fabulous and will distract from our old, boring pyramids”….
One less place to bother going too
How is it that the more civilised the developed world gets, the less civilised our underdeveloped countries get?
The pyramids might not be around for much longer anyway if IS get their way :(
Sad. Christine Behnane
:/
well,it is an islamic country (now)
The al-Sisi dictatorship is fiercely secularist and has continued to persecute the members of the Muslim Brotherhood and anyone perceived as being too conservative.
Such hypocrites – cause those Pyramids look like big butt plugs !!
Monkeys
Who would want to go there for a holiday
Where’s Egpyt? I’ve never heard of that place.
Yeah… like any sane person would want to go there now day anyway.
I never wanted to go there anyway.