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Aug 10, 2007
Quickie Link: 18 Gays in Danger of Death Penalty in Nigeria
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By vanrozenheim
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(Nigeria) - Eighteen men have been remanded in prison following their arrest for alleged sodomy in northern Nigeria, the state-owned news agency, Nan, reports. The men were arrested in a hotel in north-eastern Bauchi State, which is governed by the Islamic Sharia law. The Sharia punishment for sodomy is death by stoning. The men, reportedly wearing women's clothes, are said to have gone to Bauchi town from neighbouring states to celebrate a "gay wedding". Sharia judge Malam Tanimu ordered that the 18 be remanded in prison after they were arraigned before him on Wednesday. The Sharia law, adopted in Bauchi and a dozen other states in Muslim northern Nigeria in 2000, prescribes death penalty for Gays.
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