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埃及四名男子因同性恋被判刑

文章来源：未知文章作者：enread 发布时间：2014-04-08 07:21 字体： [大中小]　进入论坛

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A court in Egypt has sentenced four men to up to eight years in prison for committing homosexual acts.

埃及一家法院以同性恋行为判处四名男子八年有期徒刑。

The men were accused of attending or arranging "deviant（不正常的）" sex parties, and dressing¹ in women's clothes and wearing make-up.

Egyptian law does not explicitly²（明确地） ban homosexual acts, but prosecutors³ have used legislation banning debauchery（放荡，纵情酒色） to try homosexuals.

The verdict has been condemned⁴ by human rights campaigners.

One of the men was jailed for three years with hard labour by the court in Cairo.

US-based Human Rights First group said it was "alarmed and disappointed" at the verdicts.

"Egypt is a bellwether⁵（领导者） state in the Arab region; what happens in Egypt sets a trend for developments throughout the Arab world," it said in a statement.

The group said that since the ousting⁶ of President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013 there has been a rise in the number of arrests of people based on their sexual orientation⁷.

The latest case echoes that of the mass trial in 2001 of 52 men accused of homosexual acts and other offences under Egyptian law.

Twenty-three of the men were sentenced to up to five years in jail with hard labour, drawing international condemnation⁸.

A leading Egyptian human rights group said the severe sentences the men received on Monday were part of an ongoing⁹ crackdown on personal freedoms.

The convictions come a day after another court in the capital upheld three-year prison terms imposed on three prominent activists¹⁰ convicted of organising an unauthorised protest.

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1 dressing
n.(食物)调料；包扎伤口的用品，敷料
参考例句：
Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。 The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。

2 explicitly
ad.明确地，显然地
参考例句：
The plan does not explicitly endorse the private ownership of land. 该计划没有明确地支持土地私有制。 SARA amended section 113 to provide explicitly for a right to contribution. 《最高基金修正与再授权法案》修正了第123条，清楚地规定了分配权。来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法

3 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )；告发人；起诉人；公诉人
参考例句：
In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。来自口语例句 You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

4 condemned
adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的动词condemn的过去式和过去分词
参考例句：
He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。 The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

5 bellwether
n.系铃的公羊，前导，领导者，群众的首领
参考例句：
University campuses are often the bellwether of change.大学校园往往引领变革的新潮。 For decades the company was the bellwether of the British economy.几十年来，这家公司一直是英国经济的晴雨表。

6 ousting
驱逐( oust的现在分词 )；革职；罢黜；剥夺
参考例句：
The resulting financial chaos led to the ousting of Bristol-Myers' s boss. 随后引发的财政混乱导致了百时美施贵宝的总裁下台。 The ousting of the president has drawn widespread criticism across Latin America and the wider world. 洪都拉斯总统被驱逐时间引起拉丁美洲甚至全世界的广泛批评。

7 orientation
n.方向，目标；熟悉，适应，情况介绍
参考例句：
Children need some orientation when they go to school.小孩子上学时需要适应。 The traveller found his orientation with the aid of a good map.旅行者借助一幅好地图得知自己的方向。

8 condemnation
n.谴责; 定罪
参考例句：
There was widespread condemnation of the invasion. 那次侵略遭到了人们普遍的谴责。 The jury's condemnation was a shock to the suspect. 陪审团宣告有罪使嫌疑犯大为震惊。

9 ongoing
adj.进行中的，前进的
参考例句：
The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。 The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

10 activists
n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )
参考例句：
His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。 Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。来自《简明英汉词典》

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