Egyptian prosecutors are interrogating three men suspected of using the Internet to procure sex with other men, The Middle East reported.
Security sources were quoted by the weekly as saying that "the prosecutors ordered the three be remanded in custody pending investigation."
Prosecutors accused the three, an anesthetist, and two an accountants and accountants, of setting up Internet sites with pornographic pictures and advertising their willingness to establish homosexual relations, said the paper.
Last week, Cairo’s criminal court sentenced two Egyptians Thursday to three months in jail and 27-dollar fines for creating an Internet site featuring personal advertisements for homosexuals, court sources said.
The ruling by the appeals court reduced a sentence by a lower court that had condemned one of the defendants to 15 months in jail, and the other to three months in prison, the sources added.
The two men, a computer programmer and an accountant in Cairo whose identities were not revealed, were arrested in late March after their site arranged for meetings for two sheikhs from the Gulf, whose names were not revealed, court sources said – Albawaba.com
