Four men were beaten wh sticks and banished for beg gay Ghana, pturg the risg tensns – and fears – over an anti-LGBT bill.
Contents:
- FOUR GAY MEN BEATEN, BANISHED AND ARRTED GHANA FOR ‘JT TRYG TO LIVE’
- VIO OF ALLEGED GAY MAN BEG BEATEN GHANA GO VIRAL
- HOW ALLEGED GAY BEATEN TO NEAR ATH ACCRA NEW TOWN
FOUR GAY MEN BEATEN, BANISHED AND ARRTED GHANA FOR ‘JT TRYG TO LIVE’
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In Ghana, four reportedly gay men are thrashed.
Four men were btally beaten wh sticks and banished for beg gay Tamale, Ghana, pturg the risg tensns – and fears – over an anti-LGBT+ bill. Acrdg to Pulse, a Ghanian news outlet, a gay uple the town attacked his ex-partner wh a machete.
The pair were later terrogated, where the lol thori me to realise the men were gay, the outlet claimed, and named two other gay men volved the scuffle.
VIO OF ALLEGED GAY MAN BEG BEATEN GHANA GO VIRAL
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The screenshots below were ptured om one of the vios and shows the alleged gay men beg btally asslted wh a stick (see red arrow).
In his lg, Mohammed scribed homosexualy as “agast the land and Islam”, addg that “if [Choggu] was an Islamic state, they would have stoned them to ath”. ‘For jt tryg to live, the gay men were beaten, ’ says Ghana activist group. “For jt tryg to live, exist and thrive, the four gay men were beaten and fed by the people and Chief of Chogu, before turng them over to the Tamale police, and now the police have already sent them to urt, ” Rightify Ghana said a statement.
For Rightify Ghana, such hostily agast queer people has only worsened recent months as a backbgly anti-LGBT+ bill is beg rammed through parliament by a bloc of homophobic lawmakers and backed by relig lears. “The anti-LGBTQ bill, even though not passed, has embolned homophob to mobilise agast LGBTQ Ghanaians, ” add. ”The “anti-LGBT bill” troduced Ghana last Augt and currently unr review by a parliamentary mtee, would be one of the harsht and most sweepg of such laws current draft of the bill, proposed by opposn MPs and publicly backed by officials Print Nana Akufo-Addo’s ernment and lg New Patrtic party, crimalis gay and queer acts or intifyg as a LGBTQ+ person, punishable by up to five years’ also crimalis any form of advocy for LGBTQ+ people wh up to 10 years prison.
HOW ALLEGED GAY BEATEN TO NEAR ATH ACCRA NEW TOWN
Campaigners have scribed the bill as seekg to extguish and erase gay and queer inty Ghana, and create the ndns for heightened vigilance and targetg of sexual mori. Public hysteria over LGBTQ+ people and those advotg for their rights has bee tense over the past 18 Febary last year, a muny centre offerg support for gay and queer people and a place for them to meet was forced to close amid attacks om policians, civil and relig groups and the media.
While was not the first ameny of s kd, was the most high profile, as was announced whout the ual discretn that LGBTQ+ rights groups typilly e to operate wh prence of foreign and European diplomats at the openg of the centre was also seen as provotive as is often claimed that gay and queer inty is agast Ain culture and is beg promoted by the Donkor, who found the LGBT+ Rights Ghana group, which opened the centre, said reported attacks had creased, pecially outsi Accra, wh regular raids on spected gathergs of LGBTQ+ people. “There was a party last month where 30 people were arrted for beg gay; they were taed and extorted by police, ” he says.