Gay group in touba, senegal

Map of Senegal shows Touba and Dakar. (Map courtesy of AFP) Manoel, who is a volunteer journalist for the Erasing 76 Crimes and 76 Crimes en français news sites, worked with Colin Stewart, the sites’ editor/publisher, to publish articles about what had happened.

From the African Human Rights Media Network. Their lack of will power first went on display on Sept. The articles led to international financial support for the FREE Collective that allowed the 10 gay men to leave the country.

In an interview, Souleymane Diouf (a pseudonym) recounts the difficult, dangerous work of his small LGBTQ group known as the FREE Collective, which comforts the victims of anti-gay religious militia in the city of Touba in the Diourbel region of Senegal. Touba is considered holy by followers of Mouridism, a Sufi Islamic movement that is popular in Senegal. At last count, of 11 young gay men.

Violence against people on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender expression escalated in Senegal starting in early Men who identify as or are perceived to be gay increasingly became targets of popular vengeance and arbitrary arrests. In research conducted in and early , Human Rights Watch documented a range of abuses, including police abuse and arbitrary detention, physical threat, assault, and verbal abuse by private individuals, and blackmail, extortion, and robbery.

In an interview, Souleymane Diouf (a pseudonym) recounts the difficult, dangerous work of his small LGBTQ group known as the FREE Collective, which comforts the victims of anti-gay religious militia in the city of Touba in the Diourbel region of Senegal. Touba is considered holy by followers of Mouridism, a Sufi Islamic movement that is popular in Senegal. At last count, of 11 young gay men.

On Oct. From the African Human Rights Media Network. The Great Mosque of Touba Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.

Last Sunday, ten gay men were arrested during a raid in Touba, the second largest city in Senegal. The raid was motivated by the opening of a new Safiyatoul Amal militia headquarters. For the followers of the Sufi Islamic movement of Mouridism, Touba is a holy city because it is home to the tomb of Shaikh Ahmadou Bàmba Mbàcke, the founder of Mouridism.

Arrests, assaults, rapes, expulsion, exile — an LGBTQ rights leader in Senegal explains his struggles against violent and hypocritical Islamic homophobia, including the rescues of victims of religious militias in the holy city of Touba. From the African Human Rights Media Network. In an interview, Souleymane Diouf a pseudonym recounts the difficult, dangerous work of his small LGBTQ group known as the FREE Collective, which comforts the victims of anti-gay religious militia in the city of Touba in the Diourbel region of Senegal.