Several club-goers were arrested and forced to
undress in the municipal headquarters, where they were then photographed
naked. “I saw 25 men outside, or what looked like boys and
men. I went inside... I saw people kissing, touching each other, and a man
wearing a skirt. These homosexual acts that are happening... are scandalous
sexual acts,” Antoine Shakhtoura said. ........Those
arrested included “people from the Syrian community and a Lebanese transsexual
woman, who was harassed and forced to undress in the municipal headquarters,”
said Maydaa. “Of
course we made them take off their clothes,” Shakhtoura said referring to the
people they transferred to the municipality’s headquarters who were also
photographed there. “We
saw a scandalous situation and we had to know what these people were. Is it a
woman or a man? Turned out to be a half woman and half man. I do not accept this
in Dekwaneh,” he insisted. ......In a statement the organization issued recently, they
said, “witnesses confirmed that customers near the nightclub were frequently
exposed to abuse because of their appearance. Some are transferred in car trunks
to the municipality where they are physically and verbally abused.” (thanks Nikolai)