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Arrested for Looking Gay? How a Crop Top Landed a Man in Turkish Prison
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8:38Now PlayingIn a shocking instance of human rights violation, Miguel Alvaro, a Portuguese tourist, became an unwitting symbol of the LGBTQIA+ struggle in Turkey, following his arrest in Istanbul for merely "looking gay" and wearing a crop top. Alvaro chillingly recollects the brutal ordeal, as he was slammed against a police van and detained for hours. He was then thrown into the grim reality of a Turkish prison, where he endured abhorrent conditions, including maggots under his sheets. Alvaro revealed that he was driven in a boat for 17 hours to another prison near the Syrian border, where threats from fellow inmates were as relentless as the squalid living conditions. Amid this tribulation, Alvaro also recounted small acts of humanity, with some inmates standing up for him. For days, no one knew his whereabouts as he was not allowed to use his phone until late July, when he could finally alert his father. Only after his father's desperate pleas to the Portuguese embassy was Alvaro released and sent back to Portugal, 20 harrowing days after his initial arrest. In the aftermath of this ordeal, Alvaro is determined to raise awareness about the risks to the LGBTQIA+ community in Turkey and hopes that his ordeal will bring about much-needed change.
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