by Rex Wockner
International News Briefs
Gulf News reported Jan. 4 that nine cross-dressers were arrested at a hotel discotheque in Manama, Bahrain, on New Year's Eve and charged with public debauchery. The report said the men were of differing Arab nationalities.
Gulf News also reported that two journalists in Cairo have been jailed for a year for outing three celebrities. Al-Balagh Al-Gadid Editor-in-Chief Abdou el-Maghrabi and reporter Ehab al-Agami reportedly filed a story claiming that three actors had been caught in a compromising homosexual situation at a hotel.
