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Rights groups and lawyers in Nigeria say the West African nations law enforcement authorities are using the country’s same-sex prohibition law to target the LGBTQ+ community while ignoring abuses against them. The comments come in the wake of fresh mass arrests of gay people in different parts of Nigeria, highlighting once again the challenges faced by gay people in the country where homosexuality is criminalized. Some of those detained after the recent arrests have denied accusations that...

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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Law enforcement authorities in Nigeria are using the country’s same-sex prohibition law to target the LGBTQ+ community while ignoring abuses against them, rights groups and lawyers say, in the wake of fresh mass arrests of gay people. Nigeria is one of more than 30 of Africa’s 54 countries where homosexuality is […]

Some rights groups and lawyers have said that law enforcement authorities in Nigeria are using the country's same-sex prohibition law to target the LGBTQ+ people in the country while ignoring abuses against them.

Nigeria is one of more than 30 of Africas 54 countries where homosexuality is criminalized in laws that are broadly supported by the public, even though the constitution guarantees freedom from discrimination and the right to private and family life.

Law enforcement authorities in Nigeria are using the country’s same-sex prohibition law to target the LGBTQ+ community while ignoring abuses against them, rights groups and lawyers say, in the wake of fresh mass arrests of gay people.

The Anti-LGBTQ+ law in Nigeria allowed the authorities to perform mass arrests among the queer Nigerians.

Amnesty International says the arrest violated a range of human rights of the suspects.