“[T]he Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in 2002 condemned the detention of men in Egypt on the basis of consensual homosexual conduct. In this case, the same law is being used to arrest and abuse people because of their actual or presumed HIV serostatus. Forcible HIV testing also violates basic rights to privacy and to bodily integrity…”
Statement to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention re: Egyptian arrests (Item 3)
Author
Soha Abdelaty, on behalf of Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Human Rights Watch, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), Federation of Women and Family Planning-Poland, Action Canada for Population and Development
Topics
2SLGBTQ+ Rights, Discrimination, HIV Criminalization, Testing
Language
English