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African activists on human rights and aid
Credit: Daniel Berhane, http://danielberhane.wordpress.com/ This statement, released this week, is worth reproducing in full: Statement Of African Social Justice Activists On The Threats Of The British...
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Graphic pictures from Iraq’s anti-Emo killing campaign
Two Iraqi friends have sent me graphic photos from Iraqi media of children (at least, they look likely to have been under 18) murdered in the campaign against Emos. One who wrote me, a young man in...
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Nikolai Alekseev and Peter Tatchell respond: In solidarity, again
Tatchell and Alekseev, Moscow Pride, 2007 I believe — I’ve always believed — that everyone should have their say. That includes both Nikolai Alekseev and Peter Tatchell, whom I critiqued in the last...
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From Uganda: Guidelines for action against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Miriam Makeba, A luta Continua When Uganda’s “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” first appeared in Parliament in late 2009, human rights groups, women’s movements, LGBT organizations, HIV/AIDS NGOs, and other...
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Brutal gender crackdown in Egypt: The tomorrows that never came
Heartbreaking epitaph for Egypt’s revolution: “Remember the tomorrows that never came?” Graffiti in Cairo by street artist Keizer (https://www.facebook.com/KeizerStreetArt) You go home, you lock your...
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اسئلة قانونية بخصوص المثلية في مصر
بعد أن صار المثليون ومتحولو النوع الاجتماعي والجنس في مصر هدفاً لاعتداءات الشرطة كصورة من صور الحماية الزائفة للأخلاق، فقد قمنا بجمع اسئلة من المجتمع المثلي والاجابة عنها بواسطة متخصصون قانونيون بهدف...
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Egypt’s “gay wedding” furor: A ship of fools
Hand in hand: Detail from the famous video In Egypt any man can harass, brutalize, and rape a woman. It happens all the time. The State will ignore it for as long as possible; the media will say she...
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Two trials, two travesties
Convicted men in the wedding video trial cover their faces as police lead them from the courtroom cage, Cairo, November 1, 2014: Photo © Independent (UK) Eight men were sent to prison today in Cairo,...
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Tim Cook’s coming out: Leaning in, trickling down
I’ve lost interest in being gay. Not the sex; the slogans. This has been gathering over time — whose identity wouldn’t shudder under the dark suspicion it was shared with John Travolta? — but...
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Virginity tests, vile bodies: Stories from Sisi’s Egypt
Protest against forced virginity examinations, Cairo, 2011 What is this furniture That speaks of departure? People take up their folding chairs And emigrate. – Günter Grass, “Folding Chairs” Three...
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Egyptian activists to Netanyahu’s PR men: Our lives are not propaganda
Palestinian and Egyptian flags in Midan Tahrir, September 9, 2011, at a protest against military trials and the rule of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy, at...
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Dozens arrested for “perversion” in a huge raid in Cairo
Arrested men from the Bab el-Bahr hammam being herded into a Central Security truck, December 7, 2014. The woman with a cameraphone to the right appears to be Mona Iraqi. At about 10 PM last night,...
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النشطاء يدينون غارة منى عراقي / Activists condemn Mona Iraqi’s raid
Mona Iraqi, R, films while police lead away naked prisoners from December 7’s bathhouse raid: From her Facebook page (English below) نشطاء يستنكرون قيام الإعلامية منى عراقي بالإبلاغ عن مجموعة من الرجال...
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Egypt: Tweeting and blogging against informer journalists and homophobia
Stop informer journalists Tomorrow, December 21, is the first hearing in the trial of men arrested in Mona Iraqi’s December 7 bathhouse raid in Cairo. I will post updates here. Meanwhile: Protest this...
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الشرطة المصرية تلاحق المجتمع المثلي / Internet entrapment in Egypt: Protect...
الخصوصية ترقد في سلام / R.I.P. privacy (English version below) نحن نعلم الآن أن الشرطة في مصر تستخدم تطبيقات الهواتف في القبض على من يشتبه في كونهم مثليين أو متحولي/ات النوع الإجتماعي. مؤخراً تم القبض...
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New killings: ISIS answers the UN Security Council
Iraqi News wrote yesterday that one of its sources, in the occupied northern province of Ninawah (Nineveh), told them: “[G]unmen belonging to ISIS threw on Sunday nine civilians from the top of a high...
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تحديث: الشرطة المصرية تقوم بالقبض على من يُشتَبه في كونهم من المثليين و...
الشرطة تستخدم هويات مزيفة على شبكة الإنترنت للقبض على المُشتبه في كونِهم مثليين أو من متحولي النوع الإجتماعي. قامت الشرطة مؤخراً بالقبض على أربعة أفراد آخرين. يبدو إن تم القبض عليهم من خلال إستخدامهم...
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New ISIS execution for “sodomy”: Attention, UN Security Council
These photographs appeared earlier today on a JustPaste page set up by the Islamic State’s province of the Euphrates (Al-Furat). The link has spread non-stop on Da’ish-affiliated Twitter accounts ever...
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Entrapped! How to use a phone app to destroy a life
Love in the age of Grindr and Tinder. From http://media.giphy.com/ NOTE: For advice on how to avoid police entrapment and protect yourself on the Internet, see here (in Arabic) or here (in English and...
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Cairo, and our comprador gay movements: A talk
Photo taken and publicized by Egyptian journalist Mona Iraqi, showing arrested victims of the 2014 Cairo bathhouse raid over which she presided On June 16, I gave a Human Rights Lecture as part of the...
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