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Mass arrests target LGBTQ+ people in Nigeria while abuses against them are ignored, activists say
AP on their own site ^ | October 27, 2023 | CHINEDU ASADU

Posted on 10/27/2023 7:03:37 AM PDT by Salman

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Law enforcement authorities in Nigeria are using the country’s same-sex prohibition law to target the LGBTQ+ community while ignoring abuses against them, rights groups and lawyers say, in the wake of fresh mass arrests of gay people.

Nigeria is one of more than 30 of Africa’s 54 countries where homosexuality is criminalized in laws that are broadly supported by the public, even though the constitution guarantees freedom from discrimination, and the right to private and family life.

Mass arrests and detention of queer Nigerians that continued this week were done without proper investigations and could further expose them to danger amid the anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments in Africa’s most populous country, rights groups said.

The country’s paramilitary agency on Monday announced the arrest of more than 70 young people – 59 men and 17 women – in the northern Gombe state, accusing them of “holding homosexual birthdays” and having “the intention to hold a same-sex marriage.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: africa; homosexualagenda; nigeria; xyxx
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Quite the trend all over Africa.
1 posted on 10/27/2023 7:03:37 AM PDT by Salman
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“Quite the trend all over Africa.”

And it really ANGERS the NeverTrumpers.


2 posted on 10/27/2023 7:11:13 AM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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Doesn’t look like they will be attacking Niger for us. Our State Department has other things going on.


3 posted on 10/27/2023 7:12:06 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
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So when is the KwheerStapo going to start protesting in the streets? Are any of them going to Nigeria to fight for their kind?


4 posted on 10/27/2023 7:25:31 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: Salman

What are the “abuses”?


5 posted on 10/27/2023 7:27:42 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Salman

When you go into another country and try to inflict your warped and decadent morals onto the citizens of that country, they tend to get a bit upset. The trans-GIBLET activists need to buy a deserted island and all move there so they can create the “utopia” they envision.

Satan has created the perfect destructive force. An entire group of people that deny biology, reality, and God and that no one can criticize lest they upset the “powers that be”. These people are given special rights available to no other segment of society and are not required to abide by the codes of conduct agreed upon by society. They are even excused for their abuses of children with some stating those abuses are their rights under the First Amendment.

How far our country has fallen! And we are exporting those moral failures to other countries at the expense of tax-payers.


6 posted on 10/27/2023 7:37:06 AM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: BobL

Certainly one that got banned


7 posted on 10/27/2023 7:57:39 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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When you go into another country and try to inflict your warped and decadent morals onto the citizens of that country, they tend to get a bit upset. The trans-GIBLET activists need to buy a deserted island and all move there so they can create the “utopia” they envision.

And your rivals will be opportunistic and take advantage of it.

8 posted on 10/27/2023 7:58:39 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Salman

No BLM nonsense from them.


9 posted on 10/27/2023 8:00:50 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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Criminalizing Public Sex
Prohibiting two guys from calling themselves married
Enforcing Statutory Rape Laws
Telling the queers to keep their herpes infected mouths shut about their ‘oppression’.
Permitting people to say, “I am uncomfortable with open faggotry around me.”

You know, stuff a sane society does...


10 posted on 10/27/2023 8:11:47 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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“What are the “abuses”?”

Probably forcing them to use the restroom that represents the genitalia they were born with.


11 posted on 10/27/2023 8:16:33 AM PDT by chuckb87
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“activists say”

Well “activists say” all kinds of BS. and as always the leftist a-holes at AP can go F themselves.


12 posted on 10/27/2023 8:17:32 AM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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Can we send them a few thousand of our alphabet people to help them in their struggle?


13 posted on 10/27/2023 8:23:28 AM PDT by eyeamok
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Brandon will probably use an alphabet agency to orchestrate a color revolution.


14 posted on 10/27/2023 8:24:03 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Roberor thert Heinlein)
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I’m a true “multiculturalist.”

I believe - its their country and culture, they have the right to run their country as they choose. They don’t need to import our values, and we don’t need to import theirs

They certainly don’t need woke, government-funded western Neo-colonialists in London and DC telling them what to do.


15 posted on 10/27/2023 8:38:50 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Socon-Econ

There are none. It is the populace.

REgardless, the LuggButt community is conflating the issue. Such laws are against grooming and rape (kids cannot consent). Gays are not being targeted. It is the MAPS within the LuggButt community that are going down — and justifiably so.

Kinda like so called palestinians protecting Hamas. If you support monsters you will “die in the cross fire”.


16 posted on 10/27/2023 8:52:33 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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Oh those poor, poor people! NYC should offer them all sanctuary!


17 posted on 10/27/2023 8:58:31 AM PDT by null and void (The Democrats want denser housing with denser people living in them.)
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New tagline:

If you support monsters you will die in the cross fire.


18 posted on 10/27/2023 9:01:14 AM PDT by null and void (If you support monsters you will die in the cross fire.)
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To: Salman

When do we go to war with them over this?


19 posted on 10/27/2023 9:05:08 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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Can one imagine the conversation from gay foreigners wishing they could come to the states?... The normal convo would be like.. “can you imagine working and having enough money to eat/invest etc”. The gay convo... “Can you imagine, if we get to the states we can f**k each other in the **s right in public!!”...


20 posted on 10/27/2023 9:07:58 AM PDT by sit-rep
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