Ghana rights groups warn of anti-gay hate campaign
Human rights activists in Ghana warned on Friday of a hate campaign against homosexuals after a minister called for their arrest and local churches led anti-gay street protests...
From REUTERS
Human rights activists in Ghana warned on Friday of a hate campaign against homosexuals after a minister called for their arrest and local churches led anti-gay street protests.
Homosexuality is taboo across much of Africa and illegal in 37 countries, although there is a legal grey area over whether it is covered by a Ghanaian law banning “unnatural carnal knowledge”.
Paul Evans Aidoo, minister in charge of Ghana’s oil-producing Western region, called this week for the arrest of anyone found practising gay sex following local media reports of a supposed increase of homosexuals in the region.
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