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Senegal intensifies crackdown on homosexuality, charges 71

Senegal intensifies crackdown on homosexuality, charges 71

By GhanaSummary NewsroomNigeria

Senegal has charged 71 men with “unnatural acts” as it intensifies a crackdown on homosexuality, the public prosecutor’s office said late Friday.

Recent months have seen more than 100 people, including some local celebrities, arrested on suspicion of homosexual acts and in some cases of deliberately transmitting HIV.

The public prosecutor’s office has appealed the decision.

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