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Gay men sentenced to 3 years in prison

    CAIRO, Egypt — An Egyptian court convicted five men Wednesday on charges of homosexual behavior and sentenced them to three years in prison, officials said.
    Defense lawyer, Adel Ramadan, said the judge found the men guilty of the “habitual practice of debauchery” — a term used in the Egyptian legal system to denote consensual homosexual acts.
    The convictions were confi rmed by a judicial official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to journalists.
    Homosexuality is not explicitly referred to in Egypt’s legal code, but a wide range of laws covering obscenity, prostitution and debauchery are applied to homosexuals in this conservative country.
    The five men were arrested in what human rights groups describe as a crackdown on people with the AIDS virus, using the debauchery charges as a means to prosecute them.
    Four of the five men tested HIVpositive after all were forced to undergo blood tests in custody, Human Rights Watch says.

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Homosexuality is not explicitly referred to in Egypt’s legal code, but a wide range of laws covering obscenity, prostitution and debauchery are applied to homosexuals in this conservative country.

Quoted from Kevin March

I wonder, solitary confinement, or all 5 of these men in 1 cell?