Qataris deny HRW report on LGBT+ arrests and beatings
October 24 - Despite promises from the organizers and FIFA President Gianno Infantino that everyone will be welcome at the Qatar World Cup, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, it's a any other story on the ground in the preparation for the tournament, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The organization claims that Qatari security forces arbitrarily arrested and abused Qatari LGBT people as recently as last month.
Homosexuality is illegal in the Gulf State and some have raised concerns, particularly LGBT+ people and women.
Human Rights Watch said it interviewed six LGBT Qataris, including four transgender women, a bisexual woman and a gay man, who said they were detained between 2019 and 2022 and suffered verbal and physical abuse, including beatings. kicking and punching.
They were held without charge in an underground prison in Doha, HRW said, and one individual was held for two months in solitary confinement.
"All six said the police forced them to sign pledges that they would 'cease all immoral activity,'" he said, adding that the transgender women detained had a mandate to attend to conversion therapy sessions at a government-sponsored clinic," HRW said.
A Qatari official said in a statement that HRW's allegations "contain information that is categorically and unequivocally false".
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October 24 - Despite promises from the organizers and FIFA President Gianno Infantino that everyone will be welcome at the Qatar World Cup, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, it's a any other story on the ground in the preparation for the tournament, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The organization claims that Qatari security forces arbitrarily arrested and abused Qatari LGBT people as recently as last month.
Homosexuality is illegal in the Gulf State and some have raised concerns, particularly LGBT+ people and women.
Human Rights Watch said it interviewed six LGBT Qataris, including four transgender women, a bisexual woman and a gay man, who said they were detained between 2019 and 2022 and suffered verbal and physical abuse, including beatings. kicking and punching.
They were held without charge in an underground prison in Doha, HRW said, and one individual was held for two months in solitary confinement.
"All six said the police forced them to sign pledges that they would 'cease all immoral activity,'" he said, adding that the transgender women detained had a mandate to attend to conversion therapy sessions at a government-sponsored clinic," HRW said.
A Qatari official said in a statement that HRW's allegations "contain information that is categorically and unequivocally false".
Contact the author of this story at moc.l1666695654labto1666695654ofdlr1666695654owedi1666695654sni@w1666695654ahsra1666695654w.wer1666695654dna1666695654
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