Reported Rape of Gay Man Amps Up Concerns About World Cup in Qatar
Concerns about Qatar hosting the World Cup continue, and now there’s been a report that a gay man says he was gang-raped by police in the nation in 2018.The Middle Eastern nation has some of the most anti-LGBTQ+ laws in the world.
Homosexuality is illegal there and can be punished with up to seven years in prison. Qatar is also repressive toward women, and migrant workers have been abused there.
Qatari officials have defended the nation’s policies, with one doing so in an interview Monday.A man who was once an office worker in Qatar’s capital, Doha, recently told British publication The I about the 2018 gang rape.
The full article is available to subscribers only, but several other outlets have summaries.The man, a Filipino identified only as Ali, told The I that he agreed to a sexual encounter with a Turkish man in a hotel for pay.
