Egypt jails four men for gay acts

"A court in Egypt has sentenced four men to up to eight years in prison for committing homosexual acts. The men were accused of attending or arranging "deviant" sex parties, and dressing in women's clothes and wearing make-up. Egyptian law does not explicitly ban homosexual acts, but prosecutors have used legislation banning debauchery to try homosexuals...One of the men was jailed for three years with hard labour by the court in Cairo...The latest case echoes that of the mass trial in 2001 of 52 men accused of homosexual acts and other offences under Egyptian law. Twenty-three of the men were sentenced to up to five years in jail with hard labour, drawing international condemnation."