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• LGBT+ (Egypt)

  Unprecedented police crackdown: Solidarity with the LGBTIQ community in Egypt

  12 October 2017, by DAHER Joseph

  An unprecedented police crackdown has been launched against the LGBTQI community in Egypt since Sept. 22, 2017, after the concert of the Lebanese group Mashrou ‘Leila in Cairo, during which rainbow flags, a symbol of the LGBT community, were displayed by some people in the public.
  Following (…)

• LGBT+ (Egypt)

  Egypt’s grand mufti says harming gays is unacceptable even as LGBT crackdown continues

  2 August 2016, by ETEHAD Melissa

  In an interview with Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper late last month, Shawki Allam said that he condemned the Orlando massacre in which 49 people were killed and that no one had “the right to hurt homosexuals or to take the law into their own hands.”
  Allam’s comments, which were part (…)