Members Of Congress Protest Nigeria Gay Death Sentences
Members Of Congress Protest Nigeria Gay Death SentencesTwenty-two Democratic members of Congress have protested death sentences handed out to men convicted of "sodomy" in Nigeria. At least three men have been sentenced over the past month to death by stoning in Nigeria which also follows Sharia law in several provinces. (story) The letter to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo focused on one of the sentences, that of a 50-year-old man accused of having sex with another man, arrested and brought before a Sharia or Islamic court. ゲイドットコムより