
“Dozens of people demonstrated outside the law courts in the Lebanese capital on Saturday to protest the use of anal ‘tests’ on dozens of men suspected of homosexuality, which is a criminal offence in the Arab country. One sign read: ‘The cost of forensic rape: 125,000 Lebanese lira’ (about $85), pointing out that the men subjected to the anal probes were being charged for the procedure.”
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/08/12/231740.html
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