Unlawful Arrests Undermine Basic Freedoms, Rule of Law
Beirut—(ENEWSPF)—September 9, 2014. Egyptian authorities should immediately release seven men arrested on September 6, 2014 for allegedly “inciting debauchery,” Human Rights Watch said today. Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat ordered the men detained and “physically examined” after an online video emerged showing the men attending what appeared to be a same-sex marriage ceremony on a Nile riverboat.
The arrests are the latest of a long line of cases…
