{"id":2762,"date":"2007-08-10T08:32:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2007-08-10T09:07:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T15:07:46","slug":"gay-nigerians-face-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/gay-nigerians-face-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Nigerians face death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6940061.stm\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eighteen men have been remanded in prison following their arrest for alleged sodomy in northern Nigeria, the state-owned news agency, Nan, reports.<br \/>\nThe Sharia punishment for sodomy is death by stoning.<br \/>\nThe men, reportedly wearing women&#8217;s clothes, are said to have gone to Bauchi town from neighbouring states to celebrate a &#8220;gay wedding&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bauchi state is one of the areas we visited when in Nigera. It&#8217;s in the North western section of the country.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/44050000\/gif\/_44050591_nigeria_bauchi_1008.gif\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than a dozen Nigerian Muslims have been sentenced to death by stoning and for sexual offences ranging from adultery and homosexuality.<br \/>\nBut none of these death sentences have actually been carried out as they were either thrown out on appeal or commuted to prison terms as a result of pressure from human rights groups.<br \/>\nMany others have been sentenced to flogging by horsewhip for drinking.<br \/>\nBut there have been two amputations in north-western Zamfara State which pioneered the introduction of the Islamic legal system in the country. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think about all this? Would you support a similar punishment for Sodomy in your country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: Eighteen men have been remanded in prison following their arrest for alleged sodomy in northern Nigeria, the state-owned news agency, Nan, reports. The Sharia punishment for sodomy is death by stoning. The men, reportedly wearing women&#8217;s clothes, are said to have gone to Bauchi town from neighbouring states to celebrate a &#8220;gay &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/gay-nigerians-face-death-penalty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gay Nigerians face death penalty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Iy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}