Egyptian police slammed over orgy investigation

The really interesting thing here is that it demonstrates that people are people before they are muslims. The idea of swinger parties in an islamic country had never occurred to me before, but human nature is stronger than religious tenets.

So perhaps there is hope that islam will at some point become a nightmare best forgotten.

FROM NEWS.COM.AU:

Egyptian police slammed over orgy investigation

From correspondents in Cairo
Agence France-Presse
October 27, 2008 09:45pm

A HUMAN rights group in Egypt today slammed police for snooping on couples accused of wife-swapping in the conservative nation and arresting them on prostitution charges.
The case centres on a couple, a 48-year-old civil servant and his teacher wife, 37, who were detained last week for allegedly organising wife-swapping parties and orgies via a website run by an Iraqi Kurd.
The couple, who have children and used the pseudonyms Magdy and Samira on the website and in emails, could face up to three years in prison if convicted of facilitating prostitution.
"The case raises serious concerns about due process and the privacy rights of those arrested, especially in light of press reports about police interception of defendants' electronic correspondence,'' Hossam Bahgat of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said.
"We're also of course worried that police seem to be still going after many people based on the intercepted emails of the two main defendants.''
The couple confessed to having sexual relations with three other couples, although at least 44 couples signed up for Cairo swinging sessions via the website, and several other suspects - including a lawyer - were arrested.
Magdy reportedly insisted that couples present a marriage contract before indulging in any activities, fearing that they might be using a temporary Islamic marriage certificate, or orfi, in the pursuit of pleasure.
"I refused couples who had an orfi marriage because they're completely different. One of them could tear up the marriage contract and file a complaint with the authorities,'' newspaper Al-Masry al-Youm quoted Magdy as saying during questioning.
Magdy told prosecutors that he had convinced his wife of the idea of "a swinger lifestyle as a form of physical recreation between consenting married couples,'' the English-language Egyptian Gazette said.