More than 200 people were arrested at a gay wedding in Nigeria
Nigerian police arrested more than 200 people at a gay wedding. This is reported by CNN. As a police officer told the newspaper, 67 people will be prosecuted for holding and attending a same-sex wedding. Same-sex relationships are criminalized in Nigeria. Entering into a homosexual civil union can be sentenced to up to 14 years in prison. At the same time, the human rights organization Amnesty International Nigeria provided data on the arrest of more than 100 participants of the ceremony. She called on the police to release the detainees and stop this “witch hunt”. Photo: AlexLMX/Gettyimages “In a society where corruption thrives, the same-sex law is increasingly being used to harass, extort and blackmail people by law enforcement officers and other members of the public,” Amnesty International Nigeria said in a post. The police also said that during the raid they seized a video recording of the wedding, formal dresses for the ceremony and a number of narcotics. Law enforcement officers reported that they found out about the wedding while on patrol. They stopped one of the visitors to check. “During the interrogation, he admitted that he was a member of a certain gay club and was on his way to his friends for a gay marriage ceremony,” the police said. We previously reported that a man is on trial for homosexuality in Uganda. He faces the death penalty. Read also: An activist and a soldier “married” in Kharkiv. PHOTO
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