Middle East / North Africa

Location of Mauritania in West Africa. (Map courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
Germany keeps blocking activist training — this time for a Mauritanian
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Lebanon court: Gay sex is natural; anti-gay law weakens
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Report: Lebanon court rejects anti-gay law
Location of Tunisia (Map courtesy of Human Rights Watch)
Tunisian judge jails trans woman pending indecency trial
Temara is located just south of Rabat on the Moroccan coast.
3 arrests in Morocco for clothes that are ‘too feminine’
In Tunisia, Sousse is located about 150 kilometers (100 miles) south of Tunis. (Map courtesy of brittanica.com)
Jan. 6 trial in Tunisia for being gay on the street
Jailed for kissing, 2 Moroccan girls win in court
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2 arrests in Tunisia; protests block anal tests
Solidarity with Egypt LGBTQ+ explains: "We designed this logo according to our beliefs, our identities, and the identity of our cause at Solidarity with Egypt LGBT. We used the 'Ankh' or key of life in order to express the historical meaning behind this symbol and how, in our minds, it is connected to feminism and the diversity of gender and sexual identity in Egypt."
More than 274 LGBTQ victims of Egypt’s ongoing repression
Arrest of 2 girls highlights Morocco’s anti-LGBT persecution
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Tunisian police arrest and humiliate trans youth
Moroccan police arrest two teenage girls for homosexuality
Amid democratic reforms, deeper troubles for LGBT Tunisians
How to help Syrian LGBTI refugees preserve a safe space in Turkey
Refugee’s tale: ‘the homosexual’s biggest enemy is homosexuals themselves’
Egypt, ‘one of the world’s biggest jailers of gay men’