french american journalist to enroll in one of these conversion therapy centers undercover. the one we chose is one of the best known it has existed for about 20 years and office courses spanning several days to gay men from all over the world. the website highlights fraternal friendship in a well being and masculinity it invites participants to register online who. are upfront about the pricing $650.00 for a weekend and to get in our journalist 1st had to complete a long medical and psychological questionnaire. they're asking me if i've had a mental illness diagnosed bipolar borderline clinical depression. and they want they're asking if i have a history of suicide attempts or if i threaten to kill myself when i see them

officially. as if for addiction treatment he is asked to justify his motivations and sign an 8 page contract with a law making terms and conditions. just. one paragraph states i will not have 6 cheering or after the course by the way the organizers all participants knew about. the address where the course will take place is kept secret until the very last moment. equipped with a hidden camera on journalist who calls himself felix has an appointment with one of the course leaders in this hotel parking lot. those in charge of very careful so far 20 american states have banned these therapies from minus and are starting to closely monitor the methods of these organizations.

felix will be taken to the place where the sessions are how. to react to it every. 2 hours from philadelphia in the countryside on generalist is welcomed by someone who is in charge of the course and doctors i feel weeks kyllikki which i don't need to see i discovered was. a quick fix to the identity of each participant is meticulously checked previously. electronic in the car i think it. also. makes me feel great. great i think the rules are strict participants are not allowed to communicate with the outside world for the

generation of the course. if you. kick it in this room everyone sits in a circle and will have to do a series of exercises for 3 days including the baseball back a. the course leaders have convinced this participant that he is attracted to men because his father abused him as a child to shoot to work through his anger at his abusive father he has to hit a punching bag and it was. like there was a. pool to masculinity is the weekend's key words and notion that trainers say is incompatible with same sex attraction. one of the key parts of this course is called the hugging exercise the

goal to learn tenderness between men without sexual urges the leaders ask the participants to think back to their childhoods. were to go with. the old it will move through. this course is just one step to be supposedly cured participants have to come back multiple times for years these methods are being denounced by former trainers. about 3500 kilometers from philadelphia is phoenix arizona. a former member of the sara p. group reinvestigated has taken up residence here for 3 years roger was a participant and then a course leader. he too hoped that these courses would save his marriage.

so these are pictures from my old life this is me and my ex-wife when we got married in 1992. and i was 21 years old that's a long time ago. from childhood right you grew up in the mormon faith with conservative values he followed a conventional policy. married to a woman he barely knew he had 5 children in 12 years. so this. this was christmas of 2000 to a picture of a happy family on the surface my sex life in my 15 year marriage i can actually tell you to moment 2 times in 15 years that was like really great everything else was just very mechanical we have sex to have children i did have suspicions that i was gay i clearly i started developing feelings i would say when i was in high

school 1617 years old but in my world in the world that i grew up in that wasn't an option we didn't have it wasn't a choice and i live in a very small town where no one was gay the movement which sent him to conversion therapy to combat what they called his desire as we show him the images we filmed with a hidden camera he's familiar with the exercises and even introduced some of them himself. this exercise was specifically to help tara tara man's belief in himself down so that he feels like i have to be fixed because that's why i'm gay because i'm not masculine it and then they go out thinking that they're broken. considers the hugging exercise ineffective and questionable. they call it healthy touch. but it's incredibly unhealthy because it leads men to believe that this is going to satisfy their wounds and it's not that they need their sexuality satisfied by being

with a man it's like giving an alcoholic a rum here you're not the whole again you're having a sugar a day here take a little sip maybe you'll feel better that's exactly what they do traumatized following the suicide of the depressed participant you realized these conversion attempts were doomed to fail were the guys that are recovered where are the guys that are living happily ever after where are they and we would ask where are the leaders at the meetings we ask them to bring one in and let us let us see him they could never show us one because they're not there today roger is divorced and happy with his new life. so these are pictures of my family now through the ages there's pressure of me and many partners right here this is me and him this is just a few months ago is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me with him like i feel complete as a gay man ok really feel like it was like he was the last nail in the coffin if you

will to shut my old life behind it was like i finally feel like what i found as full and complete and whole as a gay man which i never thought could ever happen. raja's 3 youngest sons know his new companion and instantly accepted him. their father has left the mormon church and he finally feels free from this social and religious pressure. our investigation continues in africa where 32 countries still criminalize homosexuality we had to. hear gay people can face up to 3 years in prison as in morocco algeria to convict them the state uses particularly humiliating methods.

in this hotel in downtown cheapness skandha 21 year old gay man has been hiding from the police for several weeks. he has just been sentenced to 2 years in prison cast out by his own family he has no choice but to hide in this barren room. and his life changed 3 years ago when he was 1st publicly denounced and then convicted for being gay 2 more convictions followed he spent 2 months in prison and is afraid to go back. the reason was how. the gods insulted us and hit us because we. scanned there was also the victim of a vicious anal examination that is only carried out in 8 countries it is supposed to provide proof of anal intercourse.

they made us do the test against our will the police made a sent to the room and home cops and pulled all trousers down walk to the time of the examination and i could not escape the doctor the police insulted us shouted at us and ordered us not to move. it was like being a hospital who didn't want to know is that acceptable to him. in a few days an association will try to help him flee the country said that he can avoid going to prison. the un human rights committee recognizes the anal examination he underwent as an act of torture. dr monzer honduran is the head of the forensic medicine department at the shiny called public hospital in tunis he is one of the only medical examiners who dares to speak of this practice and openly question it but you. feel.

that. it's here in this examination room that he receives gay patients brought in by the police. is a mystery that he gets on the table and we examine him with a learned the anal examination is done in a prone position. what is it meant to find. this thing we're meant to discover abnormal signs in the anal region or fishes. is it 100 percent reliable. do you know. it must be said that it's a visual examination it's not 100 percent reliable so a tear is not always from intercourse you can tear in other ways so we must be careful about the conclusion we draw. for the people who don't want to. move its energies. these troubles medical examiners these cases disturb us it's

a dilemma we handed an official judicial request the court order can be refused but this is a requisition and it's binding. it is an examination that proves nothing and yet sends gay people to christen. in 2018127 were arrested in china zia and many cross the mediterranean to flee the country. scanned who says he has no hope left wants to do justice today he has an appointment with his lawyer well known in tunisia as an ardent defender of the gay community. for years from a nearby tour has been at war with laws he considers homophobic. oh my. it's a disgrace a country that inspects its citizens innes's what's that

a completely backward practice not only humiliating for those accused also diminishes tunisia's image. to keep scandal from going back to prison the lawyer pleaded his case with the french embassy. sentenced by the tunisian courts the young man can apply for political refugee status. bravo i'm really relieved the embassy has confirmed that they've granted you a visa to go to france so you'll be an asylum seeker and aren't allowed to come back to to nisha are you sad because uncles let's. listen to snow to come back. to you and i'm already cut off from all my family here anyway i'm all alone. now you have 4 days until you leave tenacious so keep quiet and don't get arrested which is it is right you have

a conviction over your head and see a wanted notice can be issued for huge so you have to be careful you don't go out too much. of course and they viewed of you here's your plane ticket your flight is that 2 pm did ok in a few days scanned the flies to leon. and don't forget your passport. before his departure skandhas boyfriend sabriye comes to say goodbye. they've been together for 2 years. for you ok yes the order of the moment you have my number call me and take care of yourself. yes of course. breeze family does not know he has come his parents are farmers i'm very conservative they don't know he loves another man

. i can tell my family they might throw me out. i know what they want they want me to get married but i refused to school as i loves ganda it's going to be hard having him so far away from me i want to leave the country to. do. the next day the time has come. for the lawyer minea has come to pick up skandha they need to move fast so he is not spotted by the police. as he is every time he helps young gay people escape or nia is worried up until the

last moment he knows scanned could be arrested. if they ask a customs why you're going to france they say you've been invited by an association to attend a meeting there ok. ok. money i will accompany scandal all the way. the young man seems a little lost it's his 1st time on a plane to avoid attracting attention we're filming with a cell phone. i've given him a bit of money so he can buy a sim card or something to eat. otherwise he has nothing now. as a people we. there are absolutely penniless. in the hasty farewell embrace . skandha has to go through

customs. just like i'll be relieved when he calls me from inside to tell me he's ordered why you still want to age. there could be a wanted notice for him that i don't know about but to. scan the flies alone to leone hoping not to be arrested before his departure. among the african nations that criminalize same sex acts uganda in east africa is one of the most repressive. buried in this small cemetery 2 hours from the capital is one of uganda's best known activists david catto a 47 year old gay man was murdered with a hammer in 2011. david's

mother and 3 of his closest friends came to pay their respects. gay activist sound fought for years alongside the late campaigner he too was. not too old homophobic you know doing this just because he was gay. please this. isn't. one of the tabloids. back then a proposed floor in uganda called for the denunciation of lesbians and gay men the faces and the names of 100 of them were published in the press it triggered a manhunt you were still a local fia. did so what. in 2014 a ugandan court struck down the country's anti homosexuality act which had gone it international condemnation but gay people are still considered criminals and they

can still face knife in prison. in this country of about $44000000.00 inhabitants has one of the fastest growing economies on the african continent with a growth rate of around 7 percent but behind this image of modernity and eyes a deep rooted homophobia. closely affiliated with power. religion is everywhere here all the way to the streets 85 percent of ugandans the christians and 14 percent muslims there are a few dissenting voices most are aligned in their homophobia and their support of the government's homophobic legislation. in the muslim community only the toba movement a radical branch of islam agrees to receive us and discuss the subject of homosexuality. that. the mosque spokesman shake

assyria has no qualms about making violently homophobic remarks. almost we're going to need to because. this is that is a prevailing. wages. which. work to countries but you still. show you for no reason i think you. will lose their show that are too stupid. and if your son said he was gay how would you react i do know. because i don't want to see my baby talking to me sharing with me and even in this

subdivision that i'll be lending to him. and. on the outskirts of the capital kampala behind this gate is one of the few n.g.o.s helping them it's name icebreakers. about 10 young. people are housed in this shelter one of very few in uganda. katla driven out by their parents victims of daily assaults they know they are safe here. it's very secure i hear as long as you strip which i don't do anything much as long as you are here we. know our parents are sort of river and this is elvis the

director of the association fears intrusions and police raids so he had a security system installed. in total there is 6 cameras 2 outside and 4 inside connected to a security p.c. . routes. these and necessary precautions a year ago elvis was the victim of an attempted murder he narrowly avoided the car of a man who tried to run him over. i fear for my life every day when i'm moving when i'm sleeping when i'm going somewhere when i'm in this case when i'm outside baghdad i fear for my life is revealed in the us some people would find your narrowed to feel like being. there's nothing we can do because we're all going to have police the police and the police were dr king because of my situation and by

the person who is trained to kill me is they've been there for. the people taken in by ice breakers have all suffered violent assault so one time or another show me 21 was attacked by neighbors with machetes concrete blocks and i see now remains cooped up in the shelter unable to live a normal life. to get us. to. speak. to a school it is. for those who like shami do not dare go to the hospital for fear of discrimination the icebreakers association has opened a small clinic a volunteer doctor comes in to give consultations up until 2014 allure oblige health care staff to denounce gay patients. blood pressure it's ok.

under the law say if their health. cheat homosexuals. they are kind of like they should report to police if you don't you're also kind of like promoting this law has now been abolished but gay people are still discriminated against by many in the medical profession as a result 14 percent of the gay community is a positive compared to 6 percent of the general population. and now we go back to france in leone vanstone regional director of the association of fusion comes to get scanned the young gay men who fled the country. in the end he managed to evade the police. i can tell you were happy and proud to welcome you.

every year bone song welcomes dozens of french and foreign gay people to leo and the association looks off to more than a 1000 young. people across from us already do i don't want to do most of it we're going to your flat so you can meet your flatmate he's a really nice guy get ready. skandhas future apartment is located in the city center. you don't get the results enjoy to please turn off the camera we don't want people to see where the laughs are to the bottom of. why and that is a concern but also the young people might be at risk is fine because of their family or community don't care they're at risk if people know where they are. some of their lives have been threatened like scott and those new flatmates who doesn't want to be filmed. they're going to work from the bottom up here's your flagship after dinner i'll give you the key. city or your flat

here thank you so much from scratch let's have a look the 70 square meter apartment is rented by the association alongside about 10 of those in the city. for no conclusion on the phone for a few days until a room becomes free you'll sleep here ok and it's all set up no. question on the decision or not i often tell these people remember you're in a country where you have rights gay people have rights phobia is illegal about to walk see if someone insults you in the street or attacks you you can file a complaint and they'll get in trouble that's one of the problem. when we leave scandal that 90 seems a bit funny no one. ringback 5 months later we check in on him again the young man has regained his confidence.

turned with a fleet after major city city me me me me key key he has been granted refugee status and every week he takes classes to improve his french he's a hard working student so friendship what's friendship a relationship between friends such friendship is it important to you in terms of course if you tell him how have you made any friends in the old regime does and yes i have some already yeah. that's great scanned are i'm proud of you. cunts. since coming to front skandha has dared to dream again he wants to become a hairdresser and will soon start his training. in leon he can walk openly through the streets he's no longer hiding.

only young or sorry old or feel free to say. business or feel very happy. a few days ago scandal learned that his boyfriend was about to leave china zia to escape an arranged marriage every year an estimated 500 gay people flee their homes to find sanctuary in from. cocaine trafficking and brute force in the netherlands 16 drug dealers are now on trial it is the largest criminal case of the country's history and involves the kind of violence that the mother alleges has never seen before. at the heart of the issue lies one question who try. he controls the country. some discourage. him 30 minutes from detox you.

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this is a v.w. news live from berlin a year after corona virus forced china into shutdown now it is setting out plans to bounce back the country shifts its focus from fighting the virus to longer term economic goals beijing also outlining electoral reforms that will tighten its grip on hong kong. also coming up germany's new phased plan to reopen is met with criticism retailers say it is too cautious while public health experts warn it could lead to another wave of an.