LGBT dating apps are sending users in Egypt tips on how to protect themselves from entrapment, Heba Kanso reports for Reuters. “It will make people take more precautions ... we know that the police are under pressure to arrest people and they are going about doing that through all the avenues that they have,” a director at one of the apps says. Breitbart also covers the story.

This comes as MPs currently talk over a bill that seeks to make homosexuality a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison, signaling that Egypt could soon be dealing the “final blow” to its LGBTQ community, Zvi Bar’el writes for Haaretz. The legislation is unlikely to meet significant resistance in parliament and there are few other figures or organizations willing to stand up for LGBTQ citizens.

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