The Hisba Board (religious police) in Kano, a mostly Muslim region in Northern Nigeria, have arrested 25 people attending the wedding of two men, accusing them of “organising same sex marriage.”
The situation for LGBT people in Muslim countries continues to deteriorate, as we also see with new anti-LGBT legislation proposed by the government even in a relatively Westernized country like Turkey. Among the provisions of the new law: “If persons of the same sex hold an engagement or wedding ceremony, each of these persons shall be sentenced to imprisonment from one year and six months to four years.” Even advocacy is criminalized: “A person who engages in attitudes and behaviors contrary to biological sex assigned at birth and public morals, or who publicly encourages, praises, or promotes such behavior, shall be punished with imprisonment from one to three years.”
