![]() ![]() This report examines digital targeting in five countries: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia. State actors and private individuals across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have entrapped lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people on social media and dating applications, subjected them to online extortion, online harassment, and outing, and relied on illegitimately obtained digital photos, chats, and similar information in prosecutions, in violation of the right to privacy, due process, and other human rights. Amar, 25-year-old transgender woman from Jordan, September 24, 2021 They went through my WhatsApp chats and took contact details so they could entrap my friends as well. They took photos and videos where I have makeup or a dress on, and they used them as evidence against me. They took my phone and started sending messages to each other from my phone, then they took screenshots of those conversations and screenshots from my photo gallery. Yazid, 27-year-old gay man from Egypt, July 17, 2021 ![]() They beat me and cursed me until I signed papers that said I was “practicing debauchery” and publicly announcing it to fulfill my “unnatural sexual desires.” When they came back with a police report, I was surprised to see the guy I met on Grindr is one of the officers. took me to the “morality ward” and kept me until 4 a.m. The findings show how security forces employ digital targeting to gather and create evidence to support prosecutions. The 153-page report, “‘All This Terror Because of a Photo’: Digital Targeting and Its Offline Consequences for LGBT People in the Middle East and North Africa,” examines the use of digital targeting by security forces and its far-reaching offline consequences – including arbitrary detention and torture – in five countries: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia. Security forces have entrapped LGBT people on social media and dating applications, subjected them to online extortion, online harassment, and outing, and relied on illegitimately obtained digital photos, chats, and similar information in prosecutions, in violation of the right to privacy and other human rights. Government officials across the Middle East and North Africa region are targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people based on their online activity on social media, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. ![]()
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