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Arrests for Senegal 'gay
wedding'
04 Feb 2008-
Senegal- Police in Senegal have arrested several men following the
publication of pictures claiming to depict a wedding ceremony between
two men.
The pictures
were published in Icone magazine, whose editor, Mansour Dieng, has since
received death threats.
Mr Dieng has
also been questioned by police over the issue.
Homosexuality
is illegal in Senegal but it is not clear whether the arrests were in
connection with the ceremony or the death threats.
The BBC's
Tidiane Sy in Senegal said that at least five of the men arrested
appeared in the photographs.
According to
pro-government newspaper Le Soleil, the arrested men were all seized in
"a meeting house which could act as a brothel".
Police have not
commented on the case but an official at the Department of Criminal
Investigations told AFP news agency that an investigation was under way.
The ceremony is
believed to have involved a Senegalese man and another from Ghana or the
Ivory Coast, who has not yet been found.
Mr Dieng told
Africa Global News that he published the pictures to dismiss accusations
that an earlier article on homosexuality in Senegal was untrue.
Senegal is a
predominantly Muslim country and gay men and women remain socially
marginalised.
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