The Supreme Council for Media Regulation (SCMR) has released an order to ban all forms of support towards the LGBT community on media outletsEgypt’s Supreme Council for Media Regulation issued an order to ban all forms of promotion or sympathy towards the LGBT community on media outlets in addition to their appearance on media outlets. The statement concluded by calling on all media outlets in Egypt to work on keeping the “right values” and refuse any changes in the concept of families that are the first brick of the society’s block. Homosexuality is not illegal in Egypt. But in the late 1990s, the police stepped up the use of two old laws – a 1950 anti-prostitution law and a 1961 law against “debauchery” – to arrest and charge the practicing LGBT community. The highest-profile action was a raid in Cairo in 2001 on the Queen Boat, a gay-friendly club on the Nile, where 52 men were arrested.

Source: Egypt Independent October 01, 2017 11:59 UTC