Rights group condemns transvestites' arrests

[Natasha]

Rights group condemns transvestites' arrests

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NDA1MjkxOTY4
04/01/2008

"DUBAI: Human Rights Watch yesterday condemned a wave of arrests of
transvestites in Kuwait and called for the scrapping of a new law
which outlaws cross-dressing. "New arrests show that Kuwait has
resumed enforcing a repressive dress code that criminalizes 'imitating
the appearance of the opposite sex"