{"id":4474,"date":"2026-10-30T19:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/senegal-arrests-32-more-in-lgbtq-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T19:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:04:17","slug":"senegal-arrests-32-more-in-lgbtq-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/senegal-arrests-32-more-in-lgbtq-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal arrests 32 more in LGBTQ crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"69.256875973015\">\n<p>Thirty-two people arrested in recent months in Senegal amid a crackdown on homosexuality have been charged and brought before a court for \u201cunnatural acts\u201d and \u201cwilful transmission\u201d of HIV, authorities announced Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p>These new charges, which the public prosecutor for the northern Louga region unveiled, come on top of 71 other people already facing trial.\n<\/p>\n<p>Senegal, a predominantly Muslim country, passed a new law in March doubling sentences for same sex relations from five to 10 years\u2019 imprisonment.\n<\/p>\n<p>Recent months have seen hundreds of people \u2014 mainly men, some of them local celebrities \u2014 arrested, some specifically accused of deliberately transmitting HIV.<\/p>\n<p>The case of the latest detained will be heard at a special hearing, the regional prosecutor\u2019s office said in a statement, without giving a date.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games from Saturday, the first Olympic event to take place on African soil, Human Rights Watch had called on the Senegalese authorities to stop what it termed the \u201cbrutal repression\u201d of LGBTQ people in the country. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Senegal will welcome 2,700 young athletes for the event\u2019s fourth edition from October 31 to November 13.<\/p>\n<p>HRW earlier this month stressed that the Olympic Charter proscribes any form of discrimination and for all participants to have their human rights respected.\n<\/p>\n<p>The NGO added that the crackdown is violating \u201crights, causing increasing fear and stigma, and should be ended immediately\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, several West African countries have passed laws criminalising homosexuality.\n<\/p>\n<p>Only around 20 of Africa\u2019s 54 countries do not criminalise homosexuality.\n<\/p>\n<p>AFP\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#27534f4242434e53485567575249444f49400944484a\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"51253934343538253e231121243f32393f367f323e3c\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-two people arrested in recent months in Senegal amid a crackdown on homosexuality have been charged and brought before a court for \u201cunnatural acts\u201d and \u201cwilful transmission\u201d of HIV, authorities&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}