Sure Egypt is one disgruntled general away from being the most dangerous country in the world - but at least they're a moderate secular Arabist state as opposed to pathological bigoted Islamist theocracy. Except when they're not. Like right now:

An Egyptian court convicted five men Wednesday on charges of homosexual behavior and sentenced them to three years in prison, officials said.,, the judge found the men guilty of the "habitual practice of debauchery" - a term used in the Egyptian legal system to denote consensual homosexual acts. The convictions were confirmed by a judicial official... Homosexuality is not explicitly referred to in Egypt's legal code, but a wide range of laws covering obscenity, prostitution and debauchery are applied to homosexuals in this conservative country. The five men were arrested in what human rights groups describe as a crackdown on people with the AIDS virus, using the debauchery charges as a means to prosecute them. Four of the five men tested HIV-positive after all were forced to undergo blood tests in custody, Human Rights Watch says... Ramadan, a lawyer with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, said the five men were abused and tortured over the past several months to "extract confessions" from them.

Egyptian secret police have been quite literally hunting down gay men for at least half a decade. They troll online chatrooms and set up wire taps to entrap homosexuals - who are then summarily arrested and subjected to degradation and torture. Because lots of the country thinks that homosexuality is a sin, so why not right?

Egypt, by the by, has spent the last year on the UN Human Rights Council. (h/t: MR reader Moses).

References:
* Egypt To Build Multiple Nuclear Reactors [MR]
* Egypt sentences 5 men for homosexuality [AP]
* Egypt rapped on 'gay persecution' [BBC]
* Belarus defeated for seat on U.N. Human Rights Council but Egypt, Angola and Qatar win seats [AP]

Previously:
* Taliban-Era Photos Prove That Brutal Islamist Repression Of Sexuality Not So Successful, Kind Of Surreal
* IHT Publishes Repugnant Sophisticated Excuses For Legally Mandated Iranian Sexism
* Saudi Arabia Sentences Men To 7000 Lashes For Being Gay