Relaxg on the terrace of a gay bar Ivory Coast's mercial pal Abidjan, a group of men embraced and lghed as people walked past whout even glancg their way.
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- IVORY COAST OFFICIALS REFE TO EXPLA WHY TWO GAY MEN WERE JAILED
- JAILG OF GAY IVORIAN MEN STOK FEARS LGBT SAFE HAVEN
IVORY COAST OFFICIALS REFE TO EXPLA WHY TWO GAY MEN WERE JAILED
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JAILG OF GAY IVORIAN MEN STOK FEARS LGBT SAFE HAVEN
Acivists say if cency law was applied would be first known stance of beg ed to jail gay people * cote d'ivoire gay rights *
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Authori the Ivory Coast have refed to expla why two gay men were arrted and jailed a untry that do not crimalise same-sex acts, and is wily regard as a bean of tolerance for sexual, 31, and Abdoul, 19, are openly gay but ny any romantic relatnship.
* cote d'ivoire gay rights *
They were arrted October a village southwtern Ivory Coast, apparently for “public cency” prosecutors have cled to nfirm the charge agast them, activists say if the cency law was ed would be the first known stance of the provisn beg ed to jail gay people the Reid, director of the LGBT rights programme at Human Rights Watch, said: “A vague law, arbrary arrts and an unexplaed nvictn: this is pletely ntrary to the le of law. ”The se highlights the limed geographic reach of many gay rights groups the regn. In Ivory Coast and neighbourg untri, most activism tak place major ci and there is often ltle ntact wh more remote Cameroon, where activists have long documented the ernment’s rigoro applitn of s anti-gay law, lol groups still have only a fat ia of what go on outsi Douala and Yaoundé divi is rerced by the fact that sexual mori ral areas n feel alienated by their urban unterparts’ e of wtern mpaign tactics and termology, such as the term of the Sassandra nvictn only reached activists Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s largt cy and mercial centre, after a lol prs agency ran a story about November.