Queer Egypt Under Attack

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Documentary

Overview

A BBC News investigation has revealed how violent criminal gangs are finding, abusing and extorting people from the LGBT community they meet online in Egypt. Using masking technology to hide the identities of the people he meets, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin navigates the complex online and real-life world of people who identify as queer and who have been repeatedly targeted by a gang with violent viral video humiliations and police arrests.

Keywords

investigation
police
homophobia
lgbt
factual
egypt
prostitution
violence
repression
news
denunciation
sex worker
transphobia
lgbt rights
anonymous testimonies
rapes

Details

Status: Released
Release date: January 31, 2023
Original language: French
Production: BBC Arabic,BBC Documentaries,BBC World Service,البي بي سي العربية,BBC News Arabic,BBC Arabic, BBC News Arabic, البي بي سي العربية, BBC World Service, BBC Documentaries
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt26607296