Egypt police accused of targeting LGBT people

A prominent human rights group has documented new evidence of the security forces in Egypt arbitrarily arresting LGBT people and systematically subjecting them to ill treatment, including torture.

Human Rights Watch has drawn on interviews with a number of LGBT people prosecuted over the last three years under so-called debauchery and prostitution laws.

One man said that the police beat him into unconsciousness and then left him to stand for three days in a dark, unventilated room with his hands and feet tied with a rope.