2 Zimbaweans pee at a bar. Result: Arrest for gay sex

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A 24-year-old Zimbabwean man is facing homosexuality charges after police accused him of being gay.

File photo of the hands of a man under arrest.

Police made the arrest after finding him and a second man chatting while relieving themselves in the back of a bar in the city of Bulawayo in southwest Zimbabwe.

The defendant, Anerudo [name changed], discussed the incident with NoStringsNG in an online chat.

Anerudo said he was arrested by police while urinating at the corner of the bar with a friend. The police claimed that he allowed another man to kiss, touch and insert his penis in-between his thighs, an allegation which he said was false.

“There is no affair, just two men urinating and the police came and said that we are having sex. It was at night, at a dark corner and we were just talking, just making conversation,” he said.

Bulawayo is located in southwest Zimbabwe. (Map courtesy of Gameo)

At the police station in Bulawayo, Anerudo said, he was beaten, verbally abused and detained for two days by the police in Bulawayo. Then he was taken to court and charged with sodomy.

Anerudo was released on bail after spending several days in prison. He is afraid of what might happen at the end of the trial, especially if he is found guilty, he said. He is looking into the possibility of seeking asylum in South Africa, he said.

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This blog is seeking information about what happened to the second man at the bar. [Editor’s note: Further reporting revealed that the second man was also arrested, but no information beyond that.].

Under Zimbabwean law, same-sex intimacy between men, including “any act involving physical contact other than anal sexual intercourse that would be regarded by a reasonable person to be an indecent act,” is punishable by up to a year in prison.

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