Gay man ‘tortured’ in Qatar for his sexuality is sentenced: 'This is a breach of my human rights'
Gay man ‘tortured’ in Qatar for his sexuality is sentenced: 'This is a breach of my human rights'
Forty-four-year-old Manuel Guerrero Aviña was detained in February after being entrapped by law enforcement through a fake Grindr profile, his family says.
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Why is 'tortured' in quotes
A lot of newspapers do that in headlines. They don’t necessarily mean scare quotes.
Not defending it or implying he’s lying. Just that many newspapers — especially in England — do that a lot and it doesn’t necessarily carry connotations. It often means they have a direct quote. He probably was tortured and they more using it for emphasis rather than doubt.
Because Christopher Hitchens supported the Iraq war 11 years ago and human beings are incapable of holding more than one idea in their head at a time
because its a quote, bro, wtf