dating profiles to entrap, imprison, and torture LGBT people, a new report claims.Human Rights Watch report that Egyptian police are using social media and apps such as Grindr to meet gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans people before picking them up off the street and arresting them.
Their report also claims that police often unlawfully search the phones of those they have arrested to justify keeping them in detention.Yasser, 27, told the rights group he was arrested after meeting up with a man he’d spoken to on Grindr.
He said: ‘When they came back with a police report, I was surprised to see the guy I met on Grindr is one of the officers. ‘They beat me and cursed me until I signed papers that said I was “practicing debauchery” and publicly.