Saudi Arabian Gay Man Arrested For Using Facebook To Meet Men

As British prime minister, David Cameron visits Saudi Arabia today, activists report the plight of a man arrested by the religious police who may face corporal punishment.

Activists are concerned for the safety of a 30-year-old man arrested by the religious police in Saudi Arabia for using Facebook to date other men.

Read the whole story: Pink News

Comments

[spicedust]

04:27 PM on 01/17/2012

This saddens me deeply. Some divine intervention is needed to save this poor soul!

[Ed Baker]

01:11 PM on 01/17/2012

Oh yes, our wonderful allies, the House of Saud. Whippings, stonings, beheadings..... the wonderful world of Islam.

[brklynivn]

11:13 PM on 01/16/2012

Doing Bandar Bush proud!

[Atwill]

03:26 PM on 01/16/2012

If being gay were a choice, which it is not, but if it were, then gay people in these crazy countries would choose to NOT be gay and would not be arrested. But it is not a choice. Thus they can not change.

[Atwill]

09:42 AM on 01/16/2012

What a sick country. a warning that we need to keep religion out of Washington. and never NEVER vote for any bible thumper , for any office.

[Greg Mark]

06:23 PM on 01/15/2012

When religion makes the laws. A warning.

[Texaschamp214]

04:22 PM on 01/15/2012

Facebook is always getting people in to trouble.

[Mamadea]

07:43 PM on 01/15/2012

Facebook, or "The Internets"?

[Erin84]

03:26 PM on 01/15/2012

If you ever need more evidence that our wars aren't about bringing Democracy to people, allow me to demonstrate Exhibit A. We won't dare invade them or even ask them to be nice to gays and women. We have a nice deal going on with them, oil wise.

[Zriv123]

01:20 PM on 01/16/2012

Seriously

[gaydood]

02:53 PM on 01/15/2012

yikes! i hear ya gotta be married to a woman to date a dood there. they need more gay bars and to lighten up.

[Melody3274]

02:53 PM on 01/15/2012

What love actually exists in Saudi Arabia? Can you even imagine being gay - or even a woman - in such a country? Without the freedom to love who you please? Extremely draconian social code. I can only speculate as an outsider, but I suspect the violence in the middle east is partly due to restraining not only sexual identity but individuality as well..

[canoebum]

03:36 PM on 01/15/2012

It's only marginally better than in Iran, where they hang gay men with grim regularity.

[Ed Baker]

01:10 PM on 01/17/2012

So beheading is better than hanging? Gays are routinely beheaded in the country.

[David Ross Lyon]

01:47 PM on 01/17/2012

Sharia Law...