Egypt’s Administrative Court issued a ruling on Tuesday allowing the Interior Ministry to deport homosexual foreigners and deny them entry into the country. The decision follows a court ruling which upheld an interior minister’s decision to ban a Libyan national accused of being a homosexual from entering the country. The Libyan national was accused in 2008 of “committing debauchery” in exchange for money. He had appealed the decision saying he had graduated from a school in Egypt and that the ban would prevent him from resuming his post-graduate studies. Dalia Abdel Hameed, transgender issues researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, described today’s decision as “grave”, adding that it is yet to be seen how far the state will “expand” its use of the decision. “The decision helps the state increase animosity toward homosexuals … and goes hand in hand with a campaign the state has began since late 2013,” Abdel Hameed said. Egypt has recently clamped down on homosexual activities, arresting in September 2014 eight men who appeared in a Youtube video depicting an alleged homosexual marriage ceremony and later sentencing them to prison. The police also raided a bath…
Egypt Court Rules Homosexual Foreigners Can Be Deported, Banned From Entry
April 14, 2015
