27 men were arrested on Saturday night at the al-Agha hammam after the ISF received a tip that the venue was a gay hangout spot.
According to Ghenwa Samhat, the executive director of Helem, this is the biggest anti-gay raid in Lebanon since the April 2013 raid and shutdown of a gay-friendly nightclub in a Beirut suburb.
Although Lebanon has a reputation of being one of the more gay-friendly countries in the region, Article 534 of the Lebanese penal code punishes “sexual intercourse contrary to nature,” and is regularly used to criminalize homosexual relations
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