North African Police Criminally Target LGBTQ+ Phones Over Selfies And Adult Photos
Channel: Queer News Tonight
Date: 2022-03-09

Social media used to be a safe haven for LGBTQ+ individuals living in socially conservative regions, but now police in the North African countries have begun using those tools against people.  An in-depth study of court files published on Monday found police forces in Tunisia, Egypt, and Lebanon are increasingly relying on digital tools to identify, entrap and prosecute LGBTQ+ people - thus "intensifying anti-queer surveillance". Authorities used the presence of certain apps, pictures deemed "effeminate" and even innocuous conversations to prosecute people under a hybrid of anti-LGBTQ+ and cybercrime laws, according to the report.  Police in Egypt used sting operations to entrap people via dating apps, while authorities in Tunisia and Lebanon tacked on extra charges after searching detainees' phones, it said. 

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