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5 Women Arrested Under Senegal’s Anti-Gay Law

ROBBIE COREY-BOULET, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) โ€” Senegalese police detained five women accused of violating the countryโ€™s anti-gay law, highlighting increased pressure on suspected lesbians in the deeply conservative West African nation, an activist group said Tuesday. The five women were detained early Monday morning during a birthday party at a restaurant in Dakarโ€™s […]

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