Two Pakistani transsexuals allegedly beaten to death by Saudi police

‘Two transsexual persons from Pakistan arrested by Saudi police during a raid on a ‘third gender’ party later died in custody, a newspaper says. The report claims both were tortured to death by law enforcement officers.
The raid targeted a rest house in Riyadh, where a formal Khawaja Sara meeting was taking place, the Pakistani newspaper Express Tribune said. The Khawaja Sara is a Pakistani term referring to ‘third gender’, or people identifying themselves as transvestites, transsexuals and transgender. Most of the attendees were from Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to Qamar Naseem, a transgender rights activist.
Among the 35 people apprehended during the raid were Amna, 35, and Meeno, 26. Both died in police custody later on Tuesday, the report said adding that the two were packed in sacks and thrashed with sticks in prison.
“Torturing humans after throwing them into bags and beating them with sticks is inhumane,” Naseem told the newspaper.’
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