‘Nothing short of horrific’: Amnesty criticises arrest of man in Qatar ‘trapped’ by police on Grindr

Manuel Guerrero Avina thought he was meeting a date, but was confronted by police who charged him for drug possession

The family of a gay man who was arrested in Qatar say that he was trapped" by a fake Grindr account and that he urgently needs access to HIV medicine or his health could collapse.

Manuel Guerrero Avina, who has dual Mexican-British citizenship, was arrested in February after arranging to meet a man named Gio" on the dating app. When he showed up to the meeting in his apartment lobby, Avina was instead confronted by police officers.