Kuwait: Repressive Dress-Code Law Encourages Police Abuse

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Kuwait: Repressive Dress-Code Law Encourages Police Abuse

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/01/17/kuwait17800.htm
01/18/2008

Transgender people in Kuwait tell Human Rights Watch that they are now afraid to leave their homes – even for work or to meet basic needs – for fear of arrest and ill-treatment. Arbitrary and intrusive gender-based codes for acceptable demeanor and dress violate the rights to privacy and to free expression protected under international law. The beatings and ill-treatment to which authorities reportedly subjected the prisoners violate internationally recognized prohibitions against torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.