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Gay man ‘tortured’ in Qatar for his sexuality returns home after 'deeply disappointing' sentence

www.advocate.com Gay man ‘tortured’ in Qatar for his sexuality returns home after 'deeply disappointing' sentence

Manuel Guerrero Aviña is being forcibly deported from Qatar after he was arrested in February for being gay.

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Religion of peace strikes again
- Trump is Christian and look what he wants to do with his project 2025. It's not about religion, it's about an authoritarian regime that uses a book as justification for their bullshit.
  
  Christianity sucks too. Same Abrahamic delusional shit.
Oh this is awesome! So now my comments are somehow offensive and get removed by a mod but a person that's calling other people names is apparently fine. And just when I thought Lemmy was different from Reddit... Can a mod please point out what part of my comments was somehow deserving of the removal?
- I still can see all your comments and I see "load 42 more comments" in that thread. Maybe you got an error on posting the reply because that user blocked you?
  
  There are more, this is just one of them
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Sry but I have no sympathy for any gay person who willingly travels to the Middle East and gets caught.
- Do you think there are circumstances where queer people deserve to be tortured? He moved there for work, but your victim blaming would be just as gross even if he did it for fun.
  
  Nobody should be tortured for being queer.
  
  With that said, there are some shithole countries where laws are... Well, shit. And we can't change those laws. Going there, work or fun, is a risk that I'd never assume, not for all the money in the world. Money is useless if a shitty government decides you should be executed under the charges of being yourself.
  
  This guy has my sympathy for what happened to him, that shouldn't happen in 2024, but does he really think Qatar would admit in any way to human right violations towards a "gay foreigner"?
  
  There aren't. However, if one country's laws says "we torture lgbt its a crime", why would you move there as a queer, where your existence is considered a crime? Surely there are other job opportunities at other places that don't think that way.
  
  Oh no I wanted to make more money so I volunteered to work at the leopard factory and they ate my face.
  
  Hey maybe don’t move to violent shitholes for work. Don’t support their economy and enable their crimes against humanity. And especially don’t do it for 7 years.
  
  I have as much empathy for him as I would myself if I got hit by a car because I ran onto the highway.
  
  I agree with you. I would have gladly had him with my Bible Study group.
- Man fuck that very literal victim blaming. We can recognise how depraved and wrong the law is but still blame someone who is a victim?
- Victim blaming much?

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