UNHCHR alarmed at LGBT arrests, detentions in Gambia
Today, the Office of the recently appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, issued…
Gambia must stop wave of homophobic arrests and torture
Editor’s Note: Amnesty International issued this important news release on the Gambia on 18 November 2014. We republish a…
Report: Total of Gambia’s anti-gay arrests reaches 8
A police sweep of suspected LGBT people continued in Gambia, with a total of five men, three women…
Report: Gambian arrests, detention, search for gays
Gambian authorities reportedly arrested two men and teenager last weekend on homosexuality charges and have held them for…
32 anti-gay African leaders, 32 smiling Obama photos
The issue of African countries imprisoning LGBTI people for their sexual orientation wasn’t on the agenda at this…