Posted on 05/02/2024 2:43:08 AM PDT by RandFan
The family of a gay British-Mexican man held in Qatar for alleged drug offences has given further details of what they say was a "honeytrap" operation using the gay dating app, Grindr.
Manuel Guerrero Aviña was approached online by a man called "Gio" and they arranged to meet - but he was instead met by police and arrested on false drug charges, Manuel's brother Enrique told the BBC.
Manuel, who has HIV, has now completely run out of his usual medication, his family says. They want the UK government to bring him back home for treatment.
Amnesty International has described Manuel's experience in detention as "nothing short of horrific" and says that his trial was "marred by a range of due process violations." Its concerns are echoed by other human rights organisations the BBC has spoken to.
Qatari officials insist Manuel has been treated "with respect and dignity".
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
I posted about these places still being dictatorships etc. the other day...
My son was TDY to the Middle East last year. He said it sucked. When I was in, I went TDY to Turkey. That place sucked too.
Went to the Middle East and started looking for a gay hookup?
What, he thought he was at Target in San Francisco?
No fan of Gutter, but if you're going to live or visit there, breaking their laws or anywhere, has consequences.
Trying to find my Give A S**t meter...no luck.
Not to clever!
(Not too clever!)
Apparently not - maybe he was taking one of those “undetectable” medicines they keep promoting on TV 📺
Don’t got to a ME country, if you are a Westerner. You will do something out of habit that will carry a jail sentence or life sentence.
Yes I have concluded this too.
There are always stories about it.
I dont care how much they spend or how attractive they make it they’re still despotic.
Westerners going to a Mideast Monarchy and expecting western style civil rights. The stoopid is strong here.
So a gay guy goes to Qatar possibly with drugs and meets a supposed gay guy in Qatar on a gay dating app called Grindr. What could possibly go wrong?
Maybe he should say he’s supporting Hamas and where an LGBTQ I support Muslim shirt. That would help.
I have to really struggle to get a glimmer of sympathy for this pervert.
Astonishing, isn’t it? What kind of mental midget would do that?
When I was in the USN back in the Seventies, they made a very sharp point to us young enlisted guys about drug use and otherwise breaking the local laws of wherever we made a port of call.
They said something like “Even though you can smoke pot and go shirtless back in the States, if you do these things in a country that has laws against it, you are going to be subject to their laws, so don’t do it.
They told us about one sailor who had been imprisoned in Italy several years prior to that in Naples for having a joint, and he was still in an Italian prison being buggered by He-Shes...
Most of us listened.
Why would this idiot go there and do that? It isn’t like their attitudes are a state secret. Not at all saying it is right, but they make the rules there, not us.
Exactly.
Yes. This seems common-sense to us, but people go places thinking that just because it is “okay” at home, they can take that with them everywhere around the world they go, and it just isn’t so.
The reprobate mind might be close to impossible to teach much to ...
Especially regarding decent behavior?
Dunno
I’ll bet THIS got his attention though
“range of due process violations”? Qatar?
Buddy, you’re not in California anymore. Don’t go fagging around the Middle East, expecting to be protected by the Bill of Rights, or British protections.
What’s TDY?
How stupid do you have to be to be a gay man going to a Muslim country then use a gay hook-up app while supposedly being in possession of illegal drugs?
More of a something else trap.
Temporary duty.
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