BEIRUT: Activists protested in front of the judiciary in Beirut Tuesday calling for “accountability for hate crimes” following last week’s raid of Ghost, a nightclub in the Beirut suburb of Dikwaneh, that resulted in the detainment and alleged harassment of a transsexual patron and several others.
The mayor of Dikwaneh, Antoine Shakhtoura, claims the establishment promoted drugs and “unnatural sex acts,” which are illegal under Article 534 of the Lebanese penal code.
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01/05/2013
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