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Human Rights Watch: gays tortured in Kuwait
Criticized by Human Rights Watch, the Kuwaiti police and accused of torturing and persecuting men who imitate women, calling on the government to protect what has been said that violence and repression and torture practiced against them.The spokesman declined to the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry declined to comment before reading the report issued by the organization Human Rights, based in New York.And speaks of the report, which came under the heading: "enjoy perusing the door" on the practice of repressive and imitate violence against women, and provides for certificates to the vulnerability of these prosecutions and rape by police officers.The organization called on the Kuwaiti government to abolish a law passed in 2007 criminalizes "imitating the opposite sex," and demanded accountability from police officers accused of violence and torture against men who resemble women.He said the report, which included statements from 40 men who imitate women, and certificates of sources in the Ministry of the Interior, and the statements of doctors and personalities active in the public sphere and civil society, police have been granted freedom without restrictions to decide is who is "imitating the other sex" on the grounds that there are no rules or measurements identify these controls or imitate.Said Sarah Leah Watson, a responsible organization in the Middle East that "no one deserves, regardless of sexual orientation, that of being arrested on the basis of a vague law enforced, and then exposed to violence and torture by the police.""The Kuwaiti government and the duty to protect all its citizens and residents, including the face of social rejection and wide, from the brutal behavior of the police, and the application of the law is unjust."It is said that the shift of the genus to another, in particular, from man to woman, and imitating women from social taboos and religious in the Gulf countries, and is, if it happens, in the secrecy and confidentiality, away from the eyes, because of fears of exposure to heavy fines or imprisonment.
Source: BBC Arabic
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