by Staff writer
Police bring arrested 12 men, including 2 South Africans, evidently for promoting homosexuality inward Tanzania.
The grouping was arrested at a hotel according to AFP.
It’s also reported that the men are currently beingness questioned ahead of their courtroom appearance. It remains unclear when they were arrested.
"We arrested the criminals at Peacock Hotel - they were promoting homosexuality. Two are South Africans, 1 Ugandan together with ix Tanzanians," Dar es Salaam constabulary caput Lazaro Mambosasa said at a weekly press conference.
He said the 12 were beingness questioned ahead of beingness sent to a courtroom together with did non state when they had been arrested.
"Tanzania law forbids this act betwixt people of the same sex, it is a violation of our country's laws," said Mambosasa.
He added the hotel director was amid those arrested for "providing a room" for the others.
According to police, the arrests took house inward a hotel where the grouping were undergoing grooming amongst an officially-registered international NGO, the Bridge Initiative, which industrial plant inward AIDS awareness.
In February, Tanzania earned criticism notably from the U.S.A. of America subsequently announcing the closure of several wellness centres specialising inward AIDS prevention, alleging they were fronts for promoting homosexuality.
The Dar es Salaam regime also vowed to bear foreigners campaigning for gay rights.
Gay manly someone sex is punishable past times anything from xxx years to life imprisonment nether Tanzanian law.
There is no such ban on lesbian relations.
Homosexuality is illegal inward much of Africa, together with is punishable past times cash inward one's chips inward Mauritania, northern Nigeria, southern Somalia together with Sudan. Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/
Police bring arrested 12 men, including 2 South Africans, evidently for promoting homosexuality inward Tanzania.
The grouping was arrested at a hotel according to AFP.
It’s also reported that the men are currently beingness questioned ahead of their courtroom appearance. It remains unclear when they were arrested.
"We arrested the criminals at Peacock Hotel - they were promoting homosexuality. Two are South Africans, 1 Ugandan together with ix Tanzanians," Dar es Salaam constabulary caput Lazaro Mambosasa said at a weekly press conference.
He said the 12 were beingness questioned ahead of beingness sent to a courtroom together with did non state when they had been arrested.
"Tanzania law forbids this act betwixt people of the same sex, it is a violation of our country's laws," said Mambosasa.
He added the hotel director was amid those arrested for "providing a room" for the others.
According to police, the arrests took house inward a hotel where the grouping were undergoing grooming amongst an officially-registered international NGO, the Bridge Initiative, which industrial plant inward AIDS awareness.
In February, Tanzania earned criticism notably from the U.S.A. of America subsequently announcing the closure of several wellness centres specialising inward AIDS prevention, alleging they were fronts for promoting homosexuality.
The Dar es Salaam regime also vowed to bear foreigners campaigning for gay rights.
Gay manly someone sex is punishable past times anything from xxx years to life imprisonment nether Tanzanian law.
There is no such ban on lesbian relations.
Homosexuality is illegal inward much of Africa, together with is punishable past times cash inward one's chips inward Mauritania, northern Nigeria, southern Somalia together with Sudan. Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/