Tuesday, February 05, 2019

#EGYPT: TV Host Gets 1-Year Prison Sentence For Interviewing Homosexual Man

[world politics news]


An Egyptian court has sentenced TV host Mohamed El-Gheity to one year in prison, one year probation, and EGP 3000 fine in a lawsuit that charged him with promoting debauchery and homosexuality through an interview with a homosexual man on his TV talk show on the privately owned LTC Channel in September 2017.

The lawsuit accused El-Gheity of violating "fundamental religious and legal constants" by hosting a homosexual man on screen and discussing issues that were "inappropriate for public broadcast." The suit accused El-Gheity of insinuating during the interview that there were financial gains and advantages to attain as a result of practicing homosexuality.

[FULL STORY HERE]

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