I did not know it could cause us all this trouble.’ Senegal’s elections It was the first time I saw boys indulging in such a practice. ‘This is where I took my cellphone to film the scene without their knowledge, and then transferred it to a girlfriend. I heard some suspicious noise,’ she said. The woman shot the video after going to visit one of the men at his apartment. She said she would never have uploaded the video if she had known the trouble it would cause. The others received sentences of six months. The 20-year-old woman who uploaded the video to Snapchat received a two year and three month sentence for broadcasting ‘obscene images’, according to Sene News.
That law bans same-sex relations in many former French, Portuguese and English colonial countries. ‘Acts against nature’ are illegal and punishable by up to five years in prison and fines of up to US$2,500. The four were arrested after a six second video of two unidentified men having was uploaded to Snapchat.Īuthorities charged the group with ‘acts against the order of nature’. Authorities have sentenced four people arrested in Senegal for engaging in gay to jail, one of them for more than two years.
