Gay and Lesbian Website Blocked in Saudi Arabia

By: nart on 25 March 2004
Posted in Saudi Arabia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Publications

ONI confirms reports by Reporters Without Borders that the LGBT news and information web site, GayMiddleEast.com, has been blocked in Saudi Arabia. In addition, the popular web sites gay.com, gaydar.com, and 365gay.com have also been blocked. Further testing has revealed that the web site of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) [www.iglhrc.org] along with the Gay and Lesbian Arabic Society (GLAS) [www.glas.org] have also been blocked. Click Here to read the full bulletin.