HRW reports LGBTQ abuse before Qatar World Cup
Updated On: 25 October, 2022 10:04 AM IST | AFP
The Gulf state, where homosexuality is illegal, strongly denied that anyone has been detained because of their sexual orientation and condemned the rights group’s reporting
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Police in Qatar have arbitrarily detained and abused members of the LGBTQ community ahead of the World Cup next month, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released on Monday.
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The Gulf state, where homosexuality is illegal, strongly denied that anyone has been detained because of their sexual orientation and condemned the rights group’s reporting.
HRW said it had “documented six cases of severe and repeated beatings and five cases of sexual harassment in police custody between 2019 and 2022.”
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