Qatar continues to mistreat LGBT people before World Cup, rights group says
10/25/22
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from The Washington Post,
10/25/22:
Qatari officials have arbitrarily arrested and mistreated LGBT people, in some cases as recently as last month, Human Rights Watch said Monday in a report that comes less than four weeks before the Gulf nation hosts the 2022 soccer World Cup.
The New York-based group said it had documented “six cases of severe and repeated beatings and five cases of sexual harassment” by Qatari authorities between 2019 and 2022. Human Rights Watch said it had talked to four transgender women, one bisexual woman and one gay man who were all held in an underground prison in Doha.
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