Egyptal authorities do not allow homosexual and transsexual activities

The ban has been promoted by social media, where their images were widely distributed, which Egyptian police have used to capture suspected gay and transsexual people, activists and officials say, the New York Times “reports”, the Periscope broadcast.

Photos and videos of Ahmed Aula, a 22-year-old law student and others carrying the gay symbol flag at the mass concert of Mashrou Leila, a Lebanese band with a homosexual singer, provoked public outrage and the coverage of hasty news depicting the rainbow flag as an attack on Egypt and its morals.

Ahmed Moussa, an influential host of speculation, suggested last week that Ala and others were financed by unidentified enemies who wanted to <x0... Egypt.

In a telephone interview Saturday, Ala seemed concerned about the riots. “Everything will be fine,” he said. They just said they arrested homosexuals to calm the public”.

Hundreds of them have been arrested since 2013, as part of a widespread crackdown on social freedoms by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's government, which has killed hundreds of protesters and imprisoned thousands of political opponents.

What is happening now is unprecedented”, said Gasser Abed El Razek, executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, which has monitored the crackdown and offering legal assistance to defendants.

Egyptian authorities have long used Internet capture to arrest gay people, including during a crackdown in 2001. Officials lure someone on a date, arrest them and then use messages sent during their flirting as evidence in court.

The group also called for the creation of an international solidarity movement to exert pressure on Sis's government that “immediately stop its ongoing hunt and release all prisoners“. /Periscopi/