Nine Gay Senegalese Men Get 8 Years In Jail For "Indecent Conduct & Unnatural Acts"!

Being gay in Senegal has become a serious issue for nine men.They were sentenced to eight years for "indecent conduct & unnatural acts". This has outraged an international gay rights group as it should.Noone should be jailed for having sex if they are consenting adults.Here's more on this incident from BBC:

"Homosexual acts are illegal in Senegal but the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) told the BBC it was "shocked by the ruling".

The judge added three years to a five-year sentence, saying the men were also members of a criminal group.

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.

Mr Diop said he would be appealing against the sentences.

The IGLHRC's Cary Alan Johnson said he was "deeply disturbed" by the case.

"There have been pretty consistent human rights violations… in Senegal," he told the BBC's Network Africa programme from Cape Town in South Africa.

"But 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 and a progressive human rights regime." (END OF EXCERPT) Read the entire article here:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7817100.stm

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