Tag: FREE collective
This organization is helping LGBTI people imprisoned in Senegal
The situation for LGBTI people in Senegal continues to deteriorate. Homophobic marches are organized and arrests are carried out against LGBTI people. [...]
Senegal: As homophobia intensifies, LGBTQ+ advocates seek help
In the run-up to an anti-homosexuality rally planned in Senegal on Sunday, Feb. 20, the local advocacy group Collectif Free is appealing to internatio [...]
As Senegal homophobes seek law to jail all LGBTQ, advocates fight back
A group of anti-LGBTQ lawmakers in Senegal has drafted a bill to increase the country's repression of its LGBTQI citizens -- a measure that the LGBTQ [...]
Senegal: Hate speech flourishes on Facebook in language used by 5 million
In Senegal, anti-gay hate speech spreads on Facebook without restraint in abusive posts that are written in Wolof, LGBTQ+ advocates say. That's the lo [...]
Senegal: Victims of homophobia find respect inside prison walls
African prisons often are hotbeds of homophobic violence, but that hasn't been the experience of seven Senegalese men convicted in November on homosex [...]
37 arrests of allegedly LGBTQ Senegalese since September
The ongoing anti-LGBTQ crackdown in Senegal reached a new milestone yesterday with the arrest of the 37th person suspected of being part of a sexual m [...]
Romeo and Juliet: Couple in love flees Mauritanian parents, sharia law
This is a love story, but not a usual one: A young couple fell in love and got married. The bride’s parents objected. So far, so familiar. But here’s [...]
Silence = failure when Senegal’s LGBT community is attacked
This fall, Senegal learned that its human rights defenders lacked the courage to defend sexual minorities against human rights abuses.
From [...]
Senegal: Activists pledge to confront Islamist homophobia
LGBT rights activists in Senegal are speaking out against violently homophobic Islamists even as they work to help the victims of that homophobia. A t [...]
Senegal: Arrest of 2 homosexuals at Great Mosque of Dakar
Two suspected homosexuals were arrested Nov. 23 in the area of the Grand Mosque of Dakar, Senegal.
From the African Human Rights Media Netw [...]
13 Senegal arrestees were tortured before being released
Torture by police followed by the dangers of release back into Senegal's homophobic society. That is the testimony of men who were arrested Oct. 16 at [...]
Senegal: Prison for 7 men arrested at supposed ‘gay wedding’
A court in Senegal imposed prison sentences Friday on seven allegedly gay men who were arrested Oct. 16 at a celebration that police claimed was a gay [...]
Senegal: Anti-gay zealots target 25 arrested men, 4 teenage girls
Senegal has intensified its repression of LGBTQ+ people amid escalating anti-gay propaganda and political pressure from the strict Islamist organizat [...]
Good news from Senegal: 4 rescued men reach safety
The last of 10 suspected homosexuals who were rounded up on Sept. 20 by the Safyatoul Haman religious militia in the holy city of Touba have been evac [...]
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