Gay man ‘tortured’ in Qatar for his sexuality is sentenced: 'This is a breach of my human rights'

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Gay man ‘tortured’ in Qatar for his sexuality is sentenced: 'This is a breach of my human rights'
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Ok but this gay British dude (who needs HIV meds on top!) willingly moved to a country where he is automatically made a criminal for his sexuality. How lucrative must this job have been to take such a huge risk?

There's a lot of gay men who don't even consider that these laws will apply to them. It doesn't help that a lot of people will say "oh those laws only apply to locals, they won't enforce them on international people".

That somehow feels worse to me. Can of yikes if they really think that way.

I think a lot of lgbtq dont realize just progressive first world countries are, and how dangerous third world countries are.

He’d be fine in a lot of third world countries. He really just had to go to one of the worst in terms of LGBTQ acceptance.