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Saudi: Man in police uniform on YouTube video, arrested for ‘homosexuality’!

10.3.2010

JEDDAH: Police here confirmed on Tuesday a man was arrested in January for dressing up in a police uniform, engaging in “inappropriate acts” and posting the video online.

GayMiddleEast.com has learned that the 27 year old man arrested last Tuesday had been arrested by Saudi police services in the past on charged of homosexuality. His previous charges were dismissed.

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27.9.09

Saudi Arabia is opening their first coed university. In what can only be considered a positive move for human rights and gender equality, Saudi Arabia is opening its first-ever fully integrated coed university. King Abdullah Science and Technology University, or KAUST, is a multi-billion dollar project...

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Saudi Arabia opens first coed university

GME News - 14.8.2009

For the first time GME is conducting and publishing a survey concerning safe sex among gays in eight countries in the Middle East. Our plan is for this to become an annual survey, which will provide an ongoing study of gay sexual behavior in the surveyed countries.

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	Saudi arrested for online obscenity 11.8.2009 The Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice arrested a 28-year-old Saudi in a sting operation in Al-Bawadi district in Jeddah on charges he committed homosexual acts... Full story

	Sixty-seven Filipino men working in Saudi Arabia face jail and lashes for "imitating women"- 21.6.2009 Riyadh police arrested all 67 men at a private party and drag show in a resort villa near Riyadh on June 13, Philippines embassy Vice Consul Roussel Reyes told the... Full Story

	ABC News: Report about Gay life in Saudi Arabia! 25.5.2009 - For Samir*, a 34-year-old gay man living in Saudi Arabia, each day is a denial. He lives in Mecca, the holiest city according to Islam, and is acutely aware of the stigma that surrounds his gay lifestyle. "I'm a Muslim. I know it's forbidden, but I can't help it," Full Story

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	Censorship in Saudi Arabia : Access to GayMiddleEeast.com blocked again - 19.3.04 GayMiddleEast.com, the supplier of news and information for the G.L.B.T. community of the middle east has once again been blocked off for readers in Saudi Arabia by their own government. This week GME management has received numerous e mails... Full Story I.S.U of Saudi Arabia unblocked entrance to GayMiddleEast.com 3.7.2003 "It seems that Saudi Arabia was concerned from the bad publicity blocking the site would bring them at the very same time that they are involved with a multi-million dollar advertising... Full Story I.S.U of Saudi Arabia blocked entrance to GME 18.6.03