Gay Group Attacks Blair for Egypt Trip
365Gay.com,
January 2, 2002
By Peter Moore
SUMMARY: British Prime Minister Tony Blair has come under attack for a
post-Christmas holiday in Egypt.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has come under attack for a
post-Christmas holiday in Egypt.
Blair, his wife Cherie and their four children spent nearly a week visiting
the pyramids in Giza and seeing other tourist spots in what was described by
Downing Street as a purely private trip.
The Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA) condemned the trip as
hypocrisy and a slap in the face for lesbian and gay people around the world.
Blair’s trip comes just over a month after Egypt convicted 23 men for
their "immoral behavior" and "contempt of religion" and
imposed prison sentences with hard labor on them.
GALHA secretary George Broadhead said: "At the Labour party conference
last year, Blair said that human rights would be at the center of his foreign
policy, and yet here he is offering support to a regime that persecutes
gays."
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