Middle East / North Africa

TV talk show host Mohammed al-Ghaity was sentenced to one year in prison for interviewing a gay man. (Photo courtesy of The Independent)
1 year in Egyptian prison. The crime? Interviewing a gay man
Appeal to Lebanon: Stop blockng LGBTI events
Location of Tunisia (Map courtesy of Human Rights Watch)
Tunisia: Raped, robbed, then arrested for homosexuality
Tunisian head of state Youssef Chahed (ITU Pictures photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
European MPs urge Tunisia to halt gay arrests, torture
Video calls for an end to anti-gay murders in Iraq
Tunisia: Engineer loses job, faces trial for old videos on his phone
Tunisian prosecutors have relied extensively in recent years on forced anal examinations to seek “evidence” of sodomy, even though the exams are highly unreliable and constitute cruel, degrading, and inhuman treatment that can rise to the level of torture. (Illustration courtesy of HRW)
Tunisia, stop searching phones and anuses; abolish anti-gay law
Bomb threats in Russia, raid in Beirut; activists carry on
Flag of Lebanon (Photo courtesy of NationalPedia)
Lebanon: Time to savor success, then face new challenges
Egyptian celebrity Khaled Abol Naga (Photo courtesy of The Independent)
Egyptian actor pushes for LGBT rights
Protesters carry a banner reading "Quran text before any other text" outside the Tunisian capital of Tunis on Aug. 11. (Hassene Dridi photo courtesy of the Associated Press)
Protesters vs. petitioners: Dispute over Tunisia’s anti-gay law
LGBT rights demonstrator displays combination of Lebanon's flag and a rainbow flag (AFP photo courtesy of Annahar.com)
Lebanon moves closer to overturning anti-LGBT law
Beji Caid Essebi, president of Tunisia (Photo courtesy of Reddit)
Tunisian officials propose repeal of anti-gay law
‘Please tweet’: June 17 plea by Turkey’s LGBT Iranian refugees
Scene from a photo shoot for Lebanese trans model Sasha Elijah (Heba Kanso photo courtesy of Thomson Reuters Foundation)
Lebanon: Trans model breaks taboos
Lebanese police arrest Gay Pride organizer; events canceled