Queen Boat arrests

2001 CE.

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The Cairo 52 were fifty-two men arrested on May 11, 2001, aboard a floating gay nightclub called the Queen Boat, which was moored on the Nile in Cairo, Egypt.

Text from the Wikipedia article Cairo 52, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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