More than 320 detained in Senegal LGBTQ+ crackdown, rights report says
A Human Rights Watch report describes mass arrests, forced HIV testing and obstacles to legal representation for LGBTQ+ people in Senegal.
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More than 320 people have been arrested and detained in Senegal since February over allegations of “acts against nature”, according to HIV Justice Network figures cited in a Human Rights Watch report.
The report describes an intensifying crackdown on LGBTQ+ people involving mass arrests, forced HIV testing and obstacles to obtaining legal representation. The arrests follow the tightening of a law criminalising homosexuality.
At least 84 of those detained were charged with “voluntary HIV transmission” based solely on their HIV status, according to the figures cited in the report.
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