Egypt's " homosexuality tests"
In April, a YouTube user posted a video that appeared to show something remarkable: Two Egyptian men on a boat in the Nile exchanging rings. If the video showed what it appeared to show, it would seem to be Egypt's first "gay marriage.".....
While homosexuality is not technically illegal in Egypt, gay men can find themselves charged with "debauchery" and other crimes. Egypt's largely Islamic culture has a traditional and conservative attitude to homosexuality – one 2013 poll from Pew found 95 percent of Egyptians did not think their society should accept it.
Over the weekend, Egyptian state media announced that nine of the men involved in the video had been arrested on suspicion of "incitement to debauchery" and "publishing indecent images." The public prosecutor's office released a statement that said the images were "humiliating, regrettable and would anger God," according to Reuters.
On Monday, authorities announced that the seven of the arrested men had been "inspected" and found to not be homosexual. "According to inspection, the seven suspects have never had sex with other men," Hisham Abdel-Hamid, a spokesman for the forensic authority, told Egyptian press.
Egypt has conducted homosexuality tests for years.......
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