10 Men Arrested In Mauritania For ‘Attending Gay Wedding’

10 men have been arrested in Mauritania after being suspected of attending a gay wedding. After a video appeared on social media of a gay couple appearing to get married authorities arrested the men. Although police have determined that the video was of a party and not a gay wedding, the men are still in custody. 

Mauritania practices strict Islamic law where homosexuality is criminalised. If convicted, the men could face the death penalty, although executions have not been carried out in more than a decade in the African country. 

“It is a serious attack on the individual and collective freedom of these young people who have the right to display their difference and intimate preferences,” said Brahim Bilal, the president of a human rights organisation in Mauritania, the ‘Daily Mail’ reports. 

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