Nigeria: 76 arrested for attending gay birthday party
Another suspect said he does not identify as a gay individual and was arrested while on his way to a fashion show. One evidence of such a flawed process, lawyers said, is the failed trial of the 47 men arrested in and charged with public displays of affection for members of same sex at a hotel in Lagos, 9ja gay.
Amnesty International's Nigeria office condemned the arrests and called for "an immediate end to this witch-hunt. The police used the law for the first time in to prosecute 47 men accused of same-sex public 9ja gay of affection in Lagos State.
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So-called accomplices face 10 years in prison, 9ja gay. They should release without charge everyone arrested under the anti-gay law, and seek its repeal.
Arrests under the law have been common since it came into effect but the largest mass detentions yet have been in recent weeks in which some of the suspects were falsely accused and subjected to inhumane conditions, according to lawyers and rights groups, 9ja gay.
One of 9ja gay paraded said he was at the hotel for another engagement.
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Gombe State, where the arrests took place on Saturday, is also one of the northern states with a Muslim majority where Islamic Sharia law is applied alongside the federal and state judicial systems. 9ja gay, this sentence has never been applied in northern Nigeria.
Under Sharia law, homosexual relations are punishable by death, 9ja gay. The police shamelessly livestreamed the media spectacle on their official Delta State police Facebook page. Human Rights Watch found in a report that the law had served to legitimize abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual and 9ja gay LGBT people, including extortion, arbitrary arrest, torture and other ill-treatment, 9ja gay, and sexual violence.
InDavid Bakare, a gay person, petitioned the police about a group of men who beat him up after he shared a video of himself dancing.
Police spokespersons at the Nigeria Police Force headquarters and at the Delta state command did not respond to enquiries from the AP to speak on the arrests and on the allegations about the lack of due process in handling such cases. It also punishes establishing, supporting, 9ja gay participating in gay organizations with up to 10 years in prison. Police in Delta stormed a hotel in Ekpan where the wedding was being held and initially arrested people, 9ja gay, Edafe told reporters.
The suspects were freed on bail after which they continued to threaten Bakare to withdraw the petition, a copy of which his lawyer shared with The AP. The suspects were reprimanded and released without being brought to justice. Enacted in9ja gay, the 9ja gay has been condemned locally and internationally, though it is also supported by many in the country.
A court dismissed the case because the police failed to appear and present witnesses. The "gay 9ja gay were arrested in southern Delta state's Ekpan town at about 2 a. The police publicly paraded the suspects before the media, interrogating them about the accusations, assaulting their dignity and rights to privacy, 9ja gay, association, and a fair trial, among others.