According to local media, more than 100 gay men were arrested in Bahrain after a raid of a party described by authorities as “depraved and decadent”
From reports, it appears that authorities stepped in at 2.30am after some complaints of noise and confirmation from an undercover policeman that cross-dressers and gay men were drinking and smoking shishas in a sports hall in the village of Hidd on Muharraq Island on Wednesday.
Al Ayam the regions daily newspaper reported the arrest of 127 men between the ages of 18 and 30 from several Arabian Gulf countries, with those arrested either residents of Bahrain or visitors from nearby countries.
The complex was closed on Thursday pending investigation and the organisers are being held separately, the newspaper reports. Homosexuality is illegal in Bahrain and punishable with a prison sentence, with non-Bahrainis deported after serving their jail term.
More details have yet to come out, although the future is looking decidedly uncertain for those arrested, recently the local authorities have exercised their full power in convicting gay people.
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