They could face sentences of 14 years of prison
GAYLES.TV.- It happened last Saturday in a hotel of Lagos, Capital Nigeria. A private party was held which was suddenly interrupted by a police raid in which they stopped 42 men "Allegedly homosexual", according to the Nigerian police spokesman.
Homosexuality has always been illegal in NigeriaBut 2013 the former president of the country Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan hardened the laws. Promulgated the criminalization of homosexual relationships, the prohibition of Gay Marriage, the criminalization of homosexual "love relationships" and also belonging to homosexual rights groups with penalties of up to 14 years in prison.
The detainees are accused of homosexual acts and they will be judged today. If convicted they face 14 years in prison. Party-goers received information and could undergo tests to see if they were carriers of HIV. Nigeria have the highest HIV rate from the center and west of Africa, with one of each 30 people infected, that is, 3,5 million people, according to data from the UN program on AIDS, as reported by the Sixth News. "These men were trying to save lives and make their country a better place by preventing the spread of HIV«, Has argued Bisi Alimiactivist LGTBI Nigerian and director of the Bisi Alimi Foundation, which promotes the acceptance of the LGTBI collective in Nigeria.
Source: The Sixth News, Pink News
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