"They hunt us down for fun"
Subtitle: discrimination and police violence against transgender women in Kuwait
By: [Rasha Moumneh ; edited by Graeme Reid, Joe Stork and Sarah Leah Whitson]
Contributors: Reid, Graeme; Stork, Joe; Whitson, Sarah Leah; Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9781564328526
Subjects: Human rights; Violence against; Transgender people; Legal status, laws; Transphobia; Police brutality
Other titles: Discrimination and police violence against transgender women in Kuwait; Kuwait :
Description: "In 2007 the Kuwaiti parliament outlawed "imitating the opposite sex", paving the way for police to arbitrarily detain, torture, and sexually harass and abuse transgender women in Kuwait with impunity. Despite a formal state recognition of Gender Identity Disorder, arrests of transgender women continue unabated. The police often take advantage of the law to blackmail transgender women for sex, and redress for police abuse is difficult, if not impossible, for fear of reprisal and re-arrest. The law does not criminalize any specific act or behavior, but rather an appearance whose interpretation is left entirely up to the whims of the police, giving them free reign to decide who is breaking the law and how it is broken. This report documents the abuse, violence, and persecution faced by transgender women at the hands of the police as well as the discrimination they face on a daily basis as a result of this law"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: "The report was written by Rasha Moumneh and edited by Graeme Reid, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Division, and Joe Stork and Sarah Leah Whitson, deputy director and director of the Middle East and North Africa Division respectively"--P. 63.

"January 2012."

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online in PDF format from Human Rights Watch website. Adobe Acrobat Reader required.
Table of contents: title: Summary; title: Key recommendations; title: To the police; title: To the Ministry of Justice; title: To the Ministry of Interior; title: To the Ministry of Health; title: To the National Assembly; title: Methodology; title: Background; title: Policing gender; title: Problems with the law; title: Fatwas; title: Police abuse against transgender women; title: Sexual violence, physical abuse, and torture; title: Procedural violations; title: Amira's story; title: Ramifications of the Amendment to Article 198; title: Sexual assault by civilians; title: Obstacles to healthcare and employment; title: Lack of protection and redress.