‘We’ve heard about the 35 arrests – and the different narratives about the number of individuals in different cities – and we’ve been trying to get concrete evidence that this took place, but until then, there’s no proven evidence,’ she told .uk. Lobna Darwish, a gender rights researcher at the Cairo-based Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) stresses, however, that this can be difficult to be sure of.
uk understands that activists on the ground believe at least 35 LGBTQ+ people have been detained by police.
The pop-up message flashed on phone screens on Monday (Picture: Grindr)