Blogging on Meds

No surprise here, but Egypt is jailing people for being HIV Poz. A couple of guys were street beefing, one admits to the cops he has HIV, then shazam! They’re convicted of “the habitual practice of debauchery.” Human Rights Watch says:

The arrests began in October 2007, when police stopped two men having an altercation on a street in central Cairo. When one of them told the officers that he was HIV-positive, police immediately took them both to the Morality Police office and opened an investigation against them for homosexual conduct. The two men told human rights defenders that they were slapped and beaten for refusing to sign statements the police wrote for them. They spent four days in the Morality Police office handcuffed to an iron desk, sleeping on the floor. Police later subjected the two men to forensic anal examinations designed to “prove” that they had engaged in homosexual conduct.

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