About 150 homosexuals and transgenders were detained in Baku during police raids conducted in mid-September. Over a third of them were arrested for up to 30 days, the rest were fined.
While homosexuality is not explicitly prohibited by the terms of Egyptian law, the arrested were detained on charges of inciting debauchery, sexual deviancy and violating public morals.
More than 50 gay and transgender people in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, were detained and abused in a series of raids over the past week, lawyers and rights activists said.
