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High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

UN RIGHTS CHIEF CRITICIZES LEGAL AMENDMENT IN GAMBIA TARGETING HOMOSEXUALS

The top United Nations human rights official today criticized a recent amendment to the criminal code of The Gambia that creates a broad and vague offence of "aggravated homosexuality" punishable by life imprisonment, and expressed alarm at reports of a wave of arbitrary arrests and detention of individuals perceived to be homosexual in the country. Read more


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