Source: Reuters
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(CAIRO) — Egyptian prosecutors are interrogating three men suspected of using the Internet to procure sex with other men, security sources said on Thursday.
“The prosecutors ordered the three be remanded in custody pending investigation,” one source said.
Prosecutors accuse the three, an anesthetist, a chartered accountant and an accountant, of setting up internet sites with pornographic pictures and advertising their willingness to establish homosexual relations.
The penal code in Egypt, a conservative Muslim country of 65 million, criminalises homosexual sex.
In February, a Cairo criminal court jailed a computer engineer for 15 months and an accountant for three months, both men, for having committed the “scandalous act” of advertising sexual services on the web.
