Beirut — Egyptian police and National Security Agency officers arbitrarily arrest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender LGBT people and detain them in inhuman conditions, systematically subject them to ill-treatment including torture, and often incite fellow inmates to abuse them, Human Rights Watch said today. Security forces routinely pick people off the streets based solely on their gender expression, entrap them through social networking sites and dating applications, and unlawfully search their phones. Prosecutors use this content to justify prolonged detentions as they rubber-stamp police reports and bring unjustified prosecutions against them. Sarah Hegazy, who was detained in after she raised a rainbow flag at the concert, said police tortured her and incited fellow detainees to beat and sexually harass her.

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Naji was acquitted in the public-morals trial on January 2. There were good times to be had year-round: some during our long summer, and quite a few during our short winter. Such times were, invariably, either days off work or days without it.