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Nigerian sharia police arrest 19 over ‘gay wedding’
KANO: Islamic sharia police in the northern Nigerian city of Kano have arrested 19 young people for organising a gay wedding, a spokesman said Tuesday.Kano is among around a dozen predominantly Muslim states in northern Nigeria where sharia law operates alongside common law.Homosexuality is punishable by death under that law, although the sentence has never been enforced.Those arrested -- 15 women and four men in their early 20s -- were detained on Sunday at an event centre in the city where the wedding was taking place, Lawan Ibrahim Fagge told AFP.“Our men stormed the venue where a gay couple was having a wedding and arrested 19 men and women, including the female organiser of the wedding,

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