Suspected Gay Men Forced To March Naked Through Nigeria's Capital Before Being Beaten By Police And

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Violence against gay men following anti-homosexuality bill, Nigeria

Date: 15 January 2013
Source: The Independent

Police are hunting down and torturing homosexuals in Nigeria, rights groups say, only days after President Goodluck Jonathan signed new anti-gay measures into law.

Campaigners also allege that gay men were tortured into naming dozens of others, to be arrested.

Homosexual acts were already illegal in Nigeria, but the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act, passed with no announcement on 13 January, means anyone belonging to a gay organisation can get up to 10 years in jail, and anyone married to someone of the same sex can get up to 14 years.

The law was met with condemnation from countries such as the United States, Britain and Canada. The UN Secretary General has spoken out against it and UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said "Rarely have I seen a piece of legislation that in so few paragraphs directly violates so many basic, universal human rights."

According to the Associated Press news agency, accounts varied of how many arrests were made in Bauchi state on Tuesday, and a local law enforcement official denied that anyone was tortured. Executive director of Nigeria's International Centre for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights said an undercover officer joined a group being counselled on AIDS, pretending to be gay. The organisation said police then detained four gay men over the December holiday period and tortured them until they named others allegedly belonging to a gay organisation.

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