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World Wide Wave

15 Oct 2017

EGYPT: THE FLAG THAT LAUNCHED AN ANTI-LGBT CRACKDOWN – October 10

Africa and the Middle East, News & Politics

In Australia, the rainbow flag is everywhere at the moment as part of our fight for marriage equality.  In Egypt it is an entirely different story.  In an act of support for an openly gay singer, some members of a concert crowd waved rainbow flags which caught the attention of local media – becoming a catalyst for the latest crackdown on Egypt’s LGBT community.

  • What are the allegations or torture and entrapment coming out of Egypt?
  • How is media being used as a weapon against the LGBT community?
  • Why has the international response to date been so muted?

Taking us inside Egypt where the media is being denied access, tonight spoke to Neela Ghoshal covering the Middle East and North Africa for Human Rights Watch (www.hrw.org.).

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