AN expat claims he was lured to a hotel on a dating app before being gang-raped by police in Qatar because he is gay.
The victim, from the Philippines, was working as an office assistant in the World Cup host country when he says he was confronted by six men.
He claims he received a message on a gay dating app from another man who said he was a Turkish worker offering him a substantial sum of cash to come to his hotel room.
But when the victim arrived at the tenth-floor room he was met by six men who identified themselves as Qatari cops.
He says he considered trying to jump out of the window but was cornered.
The man told inews: “They catch me and threw me on the bed. They started to rape me.”
He says the officers raped him one by one – except a Turkish man who was “laughing”.
The victim added: “When they finished, they opened my bag and checked all my things, looking for proof, saying, ‘This is prostitute, this is gay’.”
He claims an Indonesian man was snared the same night in 2018 as he also turned up at the hotel room.
They were both taken to a police station, where they were fined 300 Qatari Rial (around £74).
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