{"id":11651,"date":"2014-04-08T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T09:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=11651"},"modified":"2014-04-08T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T09:41:45","slug":"egypt-jails-four-men-for-gay-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=11651","title":{"rendered":"Egypt jails four men for gay acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/EGYPT-POLICE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11652\" alt=\"EGYPT POLICE\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/EGYPT-POLICE.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/EGYPT-POLICE.jpg 304w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/EGYPT-POLICE-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a>A court in Egypt has sentenced four men to up to eight years in prison for committing homosexual acts.<\/p>\n<p>The men were accused of attending or arranging &#8220;deviant&#8221; sex parties, and dressing in women&#8217;s clothes and wearing make-up.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian law does not explicitly ban homosexual acts, but prosecutors have used legislation banning debauchery to try homosexuals.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict has been condemned by human rights campaigners.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_2\">One of the men was jailed for three years with hard labour by the court in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>US-based Human Rights First group said it was &#8220;alarmed and disappointed&#8221; at the verdicts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Egypt is a bellwether state in the Arab region; what happens in Egypt sets a trend for developments throughout the Arab world,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The group said that since the ousting of President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013 there has been a rise in the number of arrests of people based on their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>The latest case echoes that of the mass trial in 2001 of 52 men accused of homosexual acts and other offences under Egyptian law.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-three of the men were sentenced to up to five years in jail with hard labour, drawing international condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>A leading Egyptian human rights group said the severe sentences the men received on Monday were part of an ongoing crackdown on personal freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>The convictions come a day after another court in the capital upheld three-year prison terms imposed on three prominent activists convicted of organising an unauthorised protest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Egypt has sentenced four men to up to eight years in prison for committing homosexual acts. The men were accused of attending or arranging &#8220;deviant&#8221; sex parties, and dressing in women&#8217;s clothes and wearing make-up. Egyptian law does not explicitly ban homosexual acts, but prosecutors have used legislation banning debauchery to try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":11652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-11651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}