Nine gay men in Senegal have been sent to jail for “indecent conduct and unnatural acts“.
Homosexual acts are illegal in Senegal but lawyers for the men said the sentence was the harshest ever handed down to gay men in the country.
The judge added three years to the maximum five-year sentence after ruling that the men were also members of a criminal organisation.
Most of them belonged to an association set up to fight HIV and Aids.
“This is the first time that the Senegalese legal system has handed down such a harsh sentence against gays,” said Issa Diop, one of the men’s four defence lawyers.
The extremity of this sentence [and] the rapidness of the trial all really shocks us in a country which has been moving so positively towards rule of law — IGLHRC’s Cary Alan Johnson
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