![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/hunted-arrested-and-beaten/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1_SWITZERLAND-FBL-WC-2022-DEMO-QAT-RIGHTS-FIFA-LGBTQ.jpg&description=Exclusive: Qatar is about to host the World Cup, but there are major concerns over the country's human rights record, especially towards the LGBT+ community, with same-sex relationships illegalThe shocking extent of Qatar's treatment of LGBT+ people has been revealedHunted down, arrested, beaten and forced into conversion therapy. That is the appalling reality of life for members of the LGBT+ community living in Qatar, according to a bombshell report from Human Rights Watch. Homosexuality is illegal under Qatari law and can even be punishable by death in the Middle Eastern country. While much of the focus has been on the safety of foreign fans travelling for the World Cup, there is now increasing concern for Qatar's LGBT+ community. The stark extent of the treatment handed out to the community in Qatar has now been made clear by Human Rights Watch, who have reported a litany of abuses against LGBT+ people by security forces. "I wouldn't say the Qatari government or authorities don't believe LGBT people exist because in the same token, security forces are hunting down LGBT people and arbitrarily arresting them," Rasha Younes, senior researcher for LGBT rights at the NGO, told Mirror Football. "We interviewed six Qataris who described the abuses they had faced by Preventive Security Forces, including arbitrary arrest and detention at an underground cell in Doha. They experienced severe and repeated beatings and five of the individuals experienced sexual harassment by Preventive Security Forces. "The transgender women we interviewed said that in addition to verbal harassment that they faced from Preventive Security Forces about their gender expression, including things aimed at their feminine appearance or their presumed sexual orientation, they were referred to conversion practices in a hotel in Doha. "That requirement was a condition of their release, that they attend these conversion sessions with psychologists. Also, all of the individuals we interviewed said that){kind=link}
Qatar is about to host the World Cup, but there are major concerns over the country’s human rights record, especially towards the LGBT+ community, with same-sex relationships illegal
Hunted down, arrested, beaten and forced into conversion therapy.
That is the appalling reality of life for members of the LGBT+ community living in Qatar, according to a bombshell report from Human Rights Watch. Homosexuality is illegal under Qatari law and can even be punishable by death in the Middle Eastern country.
While much of the focus has been on the safety of foreign fans travelling for the World Cup, there is now increasing concern for Qatar’s LGBT+ community. The stark extent of the treatment handed out to the community in Qatar has now been made clear by Human Rights Watch, who have reported a litany of abuses against LGBT+ people by security forces.
“I wouldn’t say the Qatari government or authorities don’t believe LGBT people exist because in the same token, security forces are hunting down LGBT people and arbitrarily arresting them,” Rasha Younes, senior researcher for LGBT rights at the NGO, told Mirror Football.