“Four young men have been convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment in an Islamic court in northern Nigeria, according to a human rights activist.
The four were sentenced and punished on Thursday to 15 strokes. They also face a year’s imprisonment if they cannot pay a fine of $120.
The men, aged between 20 and 22, should not have been convicted because their confessions were forced through beatings, said Dorothy Aken’Ova, the convenor of the Coalition for the Defence of Sexual Rights Network.
She said they had to prostrate themselves on the floor of the court to be whipped on their bottoms.”* Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Ben Mankiewicz and Eboni K Williams break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from AP / Al Jazeera:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/03/nigerian-court-whips-4-men-accused-gay-sex-201436143555638773.html