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Tunisian student jailed for being gay after lover is murdered
A young Tunisian man will spend a year in jail after confessing to having a same-sex relationship as a result of his telephone number turning up as part of a murder investigation.
The unnamed student was arrested on 6 September in the resort city of Sousse after his number was found on the body of a man he had been sleeping with.
He denied any involvement in the killing but confessed his relationship with the deceased to explain his connection to him.
Authorities believed his story after subjecting him to a medical examination but handed him over to prosecutors as a result of his confession and he was sentenced on Tuesday to a year in prison.
The maximum sentence for sex between men in Tunisia is three years in prison.
The Tunisian Association for the Support of Minorities has been calling on the government to repeal the country’s anti-sodomy laws and has accused it of using the law to intimidate the political opposition.
In 2013 the leader of the Liberal Party of Tunisia was convicted of having sex with a 20 year old man after they were allegedly witnessed having sex in a hotel spa room though many believed the charges were trumped up.
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Andrew Potts
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