Egypt Steps Up HIV Arrests

[Doctor Cynic]

Source: AP

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian police have stepped up arrests of persons suspected of having HIV, detaining four men this month in a crackdown that violates basic human rights, two international rights groups said Friday.

New York-based Human Rights Watch and London-based Amnesty International warned in a joint statement that the arrests could undermine HIV/AIDS prevention effort as people in Egypt become increasingly afraid to seek information on the subject.

Police denied making any HIV-related arrests but one police official speaking on condition of anonymity said there is a campaign to get persons registered in hospital records as HIV-positive into treatment in "special clinics." The official said he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Read more: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080215/D8UR2FM00.html

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You know another person who wanted to round up and quarantine those with AIDS?

[thunder rising]

1. I think a country that is facing the full effect of HIV, could arrest a person for attempted murder

if once the knew they had the virus did not protect or warn their partners.

[Doctor Cynic]

3. You haven't raed the article.

Here people are being rounded up and convicted for consensual sodomy.

[lurky]

4. What you describe has happened here. What's happening in Egypt is

some kind of witch hunt or pogrom. (What do you think happens in those "special clinics"?)

[Renew Deal]

2. This is what Mike Huckabee was proposing.

Maybe he can go to Egypt.

[Trajan]

5. If Egypt isnt the picture perfect example ....

Of what fundies in America want in our public life .... Then I dont know what is ....

[davidinalameda]

6. actually Iran and Saudi Arabia are the perfect examples

[pitohui]

9. that's what i was thinking

egypt probably thinks it is being all very liberal and modern by putting the men in jail for one year, in saudi arabia they would cut their heads off

[davidinalameda]

10. or drop a stone wall on them

those countries have some very creative ways of killing people

[provis99]

7. just looks like a sneaky way to imprison gay men

soon they'll be locking them up on suspicion of planning to contract HIV (by being gay).

[donsu]

8. looks like religiously insane men have taken over their govt.

Egyptians better wake up and get rid of them.

[Sultana]

11. "Persons suspected of having HIV"

:mad:

They don't even have hard evidence to arrest and even if they did it's wrong, absolutely wrong.

The "special clinics" are nothing more than a torture hell-hole.