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19 young people arrested in northern Nigeria for attending a gay wedding

The couple managed to escape and are currently wanted by the authorities. | Fountain: AFP

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Nineteen youths were arrested in northern Nigeria, in the state Kanoostensibly for participating in the celebration gay weddingas confirmed by the security forces.

“Our staff (…) arrived at the scene before the wedding began. Fifteen women and four men were among those detained,” Lavan Ibrahim Fagge, a Hisbah spokesman in Kano, said in statements gathered by local media today. Police Enforcing Sharia (Islamic Law).

Fagge said two alleged members of the couple, whose names were released by local media and security forces, managed to escape and are being sought.

As a spokesman said on Tuesday, “The arrest was made after the Good Samaritan informed the board (Hisbah) of the marriage.”

homosexuality is persecuted in Nigeria and it is considered a crime that carries a prison sentence of up to 14 years, while it can mean the death penalty by stoning in parts of the north of the country where sharia is applied, although in practice the convicted usually end up suffering flogging.

On the other hand, gay wedding it has been explicitly banned since 2014.

Some of the laws criminalizing homosexual men and women were inherited from British colonial rule and made more stringent by other later regulations.

One of the most serious cases in recent years has been the prosecution of 47 people arrested at a party in 2018, although the case was finally dropped in 2020.

sentenced to death

Last July, three men were sentenced to death stoned by an Islamic court in the state of Bauchi (northeast) after being accused of homosexuality in a process in which they had no legal representation.

Nigeria is a Muslim-majority country in the north—predominantly from the Sunni branch—and Christians and animists in the south. (EFE)


Source: RPP

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