{"id":10578,"date":"2023-10-24T18:46:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/24\/nigerias-paramilitary-raids-birthday-party-arrests-76-gay-people\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T18:46:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:46:44","slug":"nigerias-paramilitary-raids-birthday-party-arrests-76-gay-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/24\/nigerias-paramilitary-raids-birthday-party-arrests-76-gay-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s paramilitary raids birthday party, arrests 76 gay people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Seventy-six people were arrested for attending a birthday party for gay people in northern Nigeria, the country\u2019s paramilitary agency said on Monday, adding that the organizer had also planned to hold a same sex wedding, which is illegal.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      These are the latest arrests targeting LGBTQ Nigerians after police in August\u00a0raided a gay wedding\u00a0in the southern city of Warri in Delta state, and arrested dozens of people. The accused are out on bail.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      In Nigeria, like in most parts of Africa, homosexuality is generally viewed as unacceptable, and a 2014 anti-gay law took effect despite international condemnation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Buhari Saad, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) spokesperson for the largely Muslim Gombe state, said after receiving a tip off, the agency raided a party on Saturday night that was being attended by \u201chomosexuals and pimps\u201d.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      He said 59 men had been arrested, including 21 who confessed to being homosexual, and 17 women.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"map\">\n<div class=\"map__container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Gombe NSCDC said in a statement that the organizer of the birthday party had also planned to wed another man, who was still at large, before police raided the event.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The anti-gay law in Africa\u2019s most populous nation includes a prison term of up to 14 years for those convicted, and bans gay marriage, same-sex relationships, and membership of gay rights groups.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The case was expected to be heard in the Gombe state High Court on Tuesday, Saad said.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-six people were arrested for attending a birthday party for gay people in northern Nigeria, the country\u2019s paramilitary agency said on Monday, adding that the organizer had also planned to hold a same sex wedding, which is illegal. These are the latest arrests targeting LGBTQ Nigerians after police in August\u00a0raided a gay wedding\u00a0in the southern <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}