Grindr warns Egyptian users of police entrapment through fake accounts.

Grindr has warned its users in Egypt that police are using fake accounts and taking over real accounts from members who have been arrested. Although homosexuality is not technically outlawed in Egypt, members of the LGBTQ+ community are frequently prosecuted on the grounds of “debauchery” or “violating public decency”. Human Rights Watch has documented dozens of cases of security agencies in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Tunisia extorting, harassing, publicly outing, and detaining LGBTQ+ people based on their activities on Facebook and Instagram, as well as the dating app Grindr.