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Cairo Illinois   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Cairo Illinois is the strangest city on the river. Cairo is located at the southernmost tip of the state of Illinois where the Ohio river meets the Mississippi. Cairo's glory days were during the later half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. users.stlcc.edu /jangert/cairo/cairo.html   (1454 words)

Cairo 52 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The term Cairo 52 refers to the fifty-two men who were arrested on May 11, 2001, aboard a floating gay nightclub called the Queen Boat, which was moored on the Nile in Cairo, Egypt. The trials of the "Cairo 52" lasted five months and the defendants were vilified in the Egyptian media, which printed their real names and addresses, and branded them as agents against the State. The Cairo 52 were featured in a documentary by After Stonewall Productions, narrated by Janeane Garofalo, entitled Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World [1]. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cairo_52   (434 words)

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission - Human Rights For Everyone. Everywhere. CAIRO - The Emergency State Security Court in Cairo is set to deliver final sentences tomorrow, November 14, in the case of the 52 men detained since May because of their presumed homosexuality. The 52 men in detention are allowed out of their narrow cells only two hours a day (one hour in the morning and another at sunset). There are enough irregularities in the arrests and handling of this case to suggest that the Cairo 52 may have been framed. www.iglhrc.org /site/iglhrc/section.php?id=5&detail=111   (516 words)

‘Cairo 52’ Trial Ends; Controversies Go On The case of the "Cairo 52," a group of men accused of engaging in homosexual acts on or near a riverboat in Cairo last May, took some unexpected and surprising turns last week. Police in Cairo claim that, prior to the arrests, they had been surveying the homes of four of the men arrested on the Queen Boat, a floating nightclub on the Nile River. Of the 52 men arrested for committing gay acts or who "looked gay," 19 were arrested away from the boat, some the next day. www.sodomylaws.org /world/egypt/egnews71.htm   (573 words)

Closing Arguments Made in "Cairo 52" Case —In closing arguments, defense lawyers told a court in Cairo that the 52 men held on charges of "deriding religion" and "committing immoral acts" should be released, as the case presented against them was based on questionable evidence and bad police work. The Q-Weekly in South Africa reports defense lawyers argued that all 52 cases should be dismissed on the grounds of false arrest, improper arrest procedures, falsified evidence, police intimidation and torture. El Haggan noted that both the Cairo and Alexandria forensics departments were officially being investigated only a few days after the reports on this case were written. www.sodomylaws.org /world/egypt/egnews70.htm   (406 words)

The Cairo 52: More Allegations of Torture Contrary to reports by Cairo police, not all of the defendants were present at the Queen Boat the night of May 10 or were arrested there. Some of the other detainees were picked up by police for minor violations: one reportedly was a street vendor arrested for selling watches without a license at a teahouse, another was cleaning his motorcycle on the street without his ID, and still another was initially arrested for having a fight with an off-duty police officer. A Cairo media campaign ensued in the days following the arrests, with the tightly state-controlled media broadcasting names and addresses of some of the detainees, and peppering reports with allegations of debauchery and Satanism. www.sodomylaws.org /world/egypt/egnews61.htm   (530 words)

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission - Human Rights For Everyone. Everywhere. Nizar Ismail of the Cairo Vice Squad got a warrant from prosecutors to patrol an area of Mohandiseen, because Zaki was "known" to cruise these streets. A teenager, arrested in connection with the Cairo 52 case, but tried in a juvenile court was sentenced September 18 to the maximum penalty allowed by law: three years in prison, followed by three years of probation. Because the case was tried in a juvenile court, he (unlike the Cairo 52 defendants) could appeal. www.iglhrc.org /site/iglhrc/section.php?id=5&detail=82   (1743 words)

Q-online - News: Cairo 52 sentencing today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) AIRO - The Emergency State Security Court in Cairo is set to deliver final sentences tomorrow, November 14, in the case of the 52 men detained since May because of their presumed homosexuality. All 52 men are currently detained in two cramped cells, without beds. The 52 men in detention are allowed out of their narrow cells only two hours a day (one hour in the morning and another at sunset). www.q.co.za /2001/2001/11/14-egypt.html   (557 words)

Drawing - Mono   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) The implementation of GDI+ lives in the libgdiplus cvs module and requires Cairo (http://www.cairographics.org) to be installed to get the package built. Cairo is a low-level 2D vector drawing library. Raw Gdk pixbuf blitting is still much faster than Cairo drawing and Pango is a better choice if you need to perform advanced text rendering (wrapping, ellipsizing, etc.) Gdk and Pango routines can be used along with Cairo without any special tricks. www.mono-project.com /contributing/drawing.html   (1335 words)

Q-online - News: "Cairo 52" gay retrials begins in Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) The "Cairo 52" were first arrested on or around the night of May 10/11, 2001. That night, police raided the Queen Boat discotheque in Cairo, believed to be a gay men's gathering place; other police pickups followed in the next days. The 52 were tortured in detention, and jailed continuously until their trial. www.q.co.za /2001/2002/07/03-egypt.html   (428 words)

Egypt Gay Trials - Cairo 52 Case The other 52 cases are being tried this week. The trial of 52 suspected gay men in Egypt continues amidst charges that some have been beaten by police. Background and update on the Cairo 52 arrests and trials from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (published October 15, 2001). www.dazereader.com /cairo52gaytrials.htm   (485 words)

All Facts and Opinions: Sounds Unhealthy to Me... Fifty of the 'Cairo 52' are still under trial while the remaining two are doing hard labor. The Egyptian press announced the arrests on November 15, the morning after verdicts were handed down in the "Cairo 52" trial. Cairo) convicted the four men for consensual homosexual behavior. gratefuldread.net /archives/000067.html   (1138 words)

A tour of Islamic Cairo, Egypt Actually, this area is no more Islamic than Central Cairo, but as though walking through a time machine we are transported back to Cairo's past Islamic heritage, to a world of ancient mosques and 1,500 hundred year old markets; to medieval forts and the city that was Salah ad-Din's. Originally, Cairo's rulers selected the area for their tombs outside the crowed medieval city in a location that was mostly desert. This area of Islamic Cairo is called Darb al-Ahmar after the street name, and the first building of interest we come to will be the Mosque of Qijmas al-Ishaqi (60) (circa 1481 AD). touregypt.net /cairoislamic.htm   (3531 words)

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission The "Cairo 52" were first arrested on or around the night of May 10/11, 2001. That night, police raided the Queen Boat discotheque in Cairo, believed to be a gay men's gathering place; other police pickups followed in the next days. The 52 were tortured in detention, and jailed continuously until their trial. www.commondreams.org /news2002/0702-08.htm   (530 words)

Gotham Gazette -- The Citizen The site is referring to the May 2001 arrest of 62 men, of which 52 were later charged with "perverting religion" and "obscene behavior" and put on trial as alleged homosexuals. Waleed’s experience with the police and his arrest was not as severe as the experiences of the men of the "Cairo 52," but the scandal had a serious affect on Waleed. Even though it’s obvious that Waleed loves his country as he talks about the bustling city of Cairo with its 16 million inhabitants and the beautiful architecture and thousand-year-old historical sites, it’s also clear that he is desperate to lead a life without worrying about someone finding out he is gay. www.gothamgazette.com /citizen/feb02/gay-egyptian.shtml   (2529 words)

Middle East Times 23/11/01 - Article 2 - More Gays Arrested in Cairo. As international journalists, human rights activists and foreign diplomats focused on the verdicts of the 52 alleged gay men on November 14, four men were arrested on similar charges in the Boulak district of Cairo, on November 10. Asali left Cairo a month after the Queen Boat arrests in May. Since then he has been coordinating an international campaign to bring attention to the plight of gay men in Egypt. He is in constant contact with colleagues in Egypt and describes the mood as "nervous but determined." Recently, a key gay activist in Egypt who was sending information to Asali has gone missing and there is serious concern for his safety. www.gayegypt.com /mideastim23m.html   (598 words)

Wingspan FilmFest 2004 - Pressroom Three years ago, 52 men in Cairo were arrested, tortured and imprisoned for simply gathering at a river boat discotheque known to be a gay attraction on the river Nile. The centerpiece is the story of the "Cairo 52" as movingly accounted by one of the men arrested and also dramatically shown in news coverage. While the "Cairo 52" attracted some western media attention, most occurrences of LGBT oppression around the world receive no media coverage. www.wingspan.org /filmfest/2004/ff_press_room.php?release=dangerous   (581 words)

Thomasville Times Enterprise - ’Maids unable to overcome losses CAIRO — It took the new-look Cairo Syrupmaids awhile to get used to playing without two juniors. However, Cairo was unable to fight all the way back, pulling within one on five occasions down the stretch. Shortcircuiting Cairo’s comeback attempt were missed opportunities at the foul line and on the boards. www.timesenterprise.com /sports/local_story_020002135.html   (539 words)

[No title] SAN FRANCISCO - The trial of the 52 men detained in Egypt because of their alleged homosexuality continued October 3rd with new allegations of beatings and procedural irregularities. Court observers believe it is likely that the hearings will end and sentences will be pronounced before the end of the month. Contrary to previous news reports, not all of the defendants were present at the Queen Boat the night of May 10 or were arrested there. www.tampabaycoalition.com /files/1005IGLHRCEgypt52.htm   (633 words)

Egypt52   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) And 52 men accused of "practicing debauchery with men" have been on trial in Cairo over the past several months in a spectacle that has received international attention. The arrests are part of what appears to be a crackdown by the Hosni Mubarak government that some believe is an attempt to distract Egyptians from the serious problems plaguing the country, while also pandering to Islamic fundamentalists by suppressing an increasingly visible gay community. Some of the Cairo 52 have reportedly been tortured and abused in jail, coerced to confess by use of electric shock treatment, and are being tried in State Emergency Security Court, a special court system that was created specifically to deal with terrorists and criminals who pose threats to national security. www.glas.org /ahbab/Articles/signor.htm   (1589 words)

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission CAIRO - November 14 - The Emergency State Security Court in Cairo delivered its sentences November 14 in the case of the 52 men detained since May because of their presumed homosexuality. At the hearing itself the judge reading of the sentences was described as "whispering," his voice so law that the detained men could not even fully hear their own sentences. IGLHRC is a US-based non-profit, non-governmental organization that works to protect and advance the human rights of all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV status. www.commondreams.org /news2001/1114-01.htm   (649 words)

WLUML: Calls for Action 7/02/2002: On February 3, 2002, a court in Boulak-al-Dakrour (in Giza, a suburb of Cairo) convicted four men for consensual homosexual behavior. The Egyptian press announced the arrests on November 15, the morning after verdicts were handed down in the "Cairo 52" trial--in an apparent signal that State pursuit of suspected homosexuals would be unrelenting. Barely two weeks after the Cairo 52 verdicts, the European Union approved a new trade agreement with Egypt, brushing aside human rights concerns. www.wluml.org /english/actionsfulltxt.shtml?cmd[156]=i-156-3123   (333 words)

Well, I'm Back: Cairo Status It should be possible to build with cairo on Linux by running configure --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2 and get results similar to what I posted last week (better, actually, since I've fixed some image rendering bugs). Ernst: Yes you can, but I don't recommend it because our Cairo has some patches that haven't made it to trunk Cairo yet, and it's not tested with any system Cairo. Ludovic: We will set up non-GTK2 Cairo builds at some point in the future, but right now that is not a priority. weblogs.mozillazine.org /roc/archives/2005/04/cairo_status.html   (335 words)

Egypt - All-Time Table   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) ESCO Cairo 6 158 46 49 63 141:175 - 187 23. ENPPI Cairo 3 52 21 19 12 61:41 - 82 35. You are free to copy this document in whole or part provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the author. www.rsssf.com /tablese/egyalltime.html   (622 words)

UMass Amherst: Events > Film: Dangerous Living - Coming Out in the Developing World In the last decade of the 20th Century, a new heightened visibility began spreading throughout the developing world and the battles between families, fundamentalist religions, and governments around sexual and gender identity had begun. But in the West, few people knew about this historic social upheaval, until 52 men on Cairo’s Queen Boat discotheque were arrested for crimes of debauchery. Dangerous Living opens with one of the Cairo 52 defendant’s, Ashraf Zanati, who was tortured, humiliated, beaten and forced to spend 13 months in prison. www.umass.edu /umhome/events/articles/13330.php   (246 words)

Truman Library - J. Wesley Adams Oral History Interview She was head of the Fulbright Office in Cairo -- of exchange of students and scholars -- professors.) I recounted the news and asked her what the family's plans were. The odd thing was that when we went to Cairo in 1950 I was obviously aware of this background, but I really had no appreciation of the strength of the Arab feeling on the subject. I mean, it's hatred and it stems from what they believe to be his role in turning Palestine over to the Jews, and then in insuring that Palestinians didn't have the wherewithal to fight back, or that the Jews had the wherewithal to keep it. www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/adamsjw.htm   (20096 words)

23 egyptians sentenced, 29 freed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) November 14, 2001: In an Egyptian trial that has outraged international rights groups, 23 men were sentenced to 1 to 5 years in prison for their alleged sexual orientation. The 52 allegedly homosexual men - arrested during a police raid on a Nile boat restaurant on 11 May - were thus charged with "obscene behaviour" under a law against prostitution and contempt of religion. The verdict today caused indignation among a crowd of an estimated 200 person outside the Cairo courtroom, which was driven back by "police wielding sticks," according to a CNN report. www.mask.org.za /printpage.php?id=161   (554 words)

afrol News - Trial of suspected homosexuals continues in Cairo That night, police raided the 'Queen Boat' discotheque in Cairo, believed to be a gay men's gathering place. The 52 were allegedly tortured in detention, and jailed continuously until their trial. The introduction of a Western "gay" identity and the emerging Cairo "gay scene" seems to be the background for the sudden criminal prosecution of homosexuals in Egypt initiated last year. www.afrol.com /News2002/egy012_gay_retrial.htm   (725 words)

EGYPT Others were taken from two locations in downtown Cairo or from their homes. This includes the right to be tried before a competent, independent and impartial court established by law and the right to a full review before a higher tribunal. The resolution provoked a written response to the President of the European Parliament from the Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament, Fathi Surur, who rejected the view that the men had been convicted for homosexuality. www.amnestyusa.org /actioncenter/files/cairo52.html   (3573 words)

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