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Senegal jails seven men for having gay sex
Senegal jails seven men for having gay sex
Seven men have been jailed for six months in Senegal.
The men were caught having sex during a raid, police told a court in Dakar.
According to a BBC report on 22 Aug, the mother of one of the accused told the authorities her son was gay, but did not show up as a prosecution witness at the trial.
Defence lawyer Abdoul Daff was quoted as saying that the mother’s failure to appear in court should have caused the case to collapse.
‘There was neither material evidence nor testimony in order to corroborate the claims,’ he said.
Under the laws of the west African country, where the population is more than 95% Muslim, ‘acts against nature’ are illegal and punishable up to five years in prison and fines of up to US$2,50o.
Last month, a well-known Senegalese journalist Tamsir Jupiter Ndiaye was sentenced by a Dakar court to six months in prison for gay sex.
In 2014, a gay couple in Dakar was sentenced to six months’ jail in what was said to be a rare conviction of a gay couple on criminal charges after after neighbors alerted police to their home.
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Sylvia Tan
www.gaystarnews.com/article/senegal-jails-seven-men-for-having-gay-sex/
One Million Moms Goes After 'I Am Jazz'
One Million Moms Goes After 'I Am Jazz'
The right-wing group wants Revlon to pull ads from the reality show about transgender teen Jazz Jennings.
Trudy Ring
www.advocate.com/media/2015/08/21/one-million-moms-goes-after-i-am-jazz
Gay couple jailed for blackmailing married man on Grindr
Gay couple jailed for blackmailing married man on Grindr
A gay couple have been given jail terms after they blackmailed and threatened to expose a married man they met on a gay hookup app.
Daniel Edwards, 29, and Kristofer Wagner, 30, was jailed for two years and 10 months, and one year and eight months respectively.
They admitted blackmailing the man whom they met on Grindr.
Swindon Crown Court heard Edwards exchanged explicit pictures and messages with the victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and then asked if he was married.
When the victim said he was married to a woman, Edwards demanded £2,000 or he would forward the messages and pictures to his wife.
The man agreed to pay £1,500 and arranged to meet Edwards who was accompanied by Wagner in a car.
The victim called police soon after.
Following the sentence, Kate Lewis, senior crown prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service in Wessex, said the case shows that ‘homophobia can exist even in a situation where it is least expected.’
‘The defendants understood the sensitivity of the victim’s situation and cruelly used this against him,’ she was quoted by the BBC as saying.
‘There is no doubt that Daniel Edwards specifically targeted his victim, first by going on a gay dating website and secondly by determining whether the victim was married in order to blackmail him.
‘The CPS according to its policy treated the case as a homophobic hate crime because Daniel Edwards threatened to ‘out’ the victim if he refused to pay the sum of money demanded.
‘He knew the harm it would cause to the victim and his family.
‘We considered the case as a homophobic hate crime because of the perception that the defendants were motivated by hostility towards the victim because of his sexuality.’
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Sylvia Tan
www.gaystarnews.com/article/gay-couple-jailed-for-blackmailing-married-man-on-grindr/
