Two teenage girls could be jailed after they
were spotted kissing and hugging each
other on the roof of a building.
The girls, aged 16 and 17, were reported to
authorities in Marrakesh, one of Morocco’s
largest cities, visited by thousands of
British tourists every year.
It is a crime to be gay in the North African
country, where according to local law any
person who ‘commits a lewd and unnatural
act’ with someone of the same sex can be
sentenced to six months to three years in
prison.
Omar Arbib from the Moroccan Association
of Human Rights told CNN Arabic that the
girls’ only supposed crime was to be seen
close to one another kissing on the
rooftop.
Both of them were
detained in an adult
jail prison wing,
where the older girl
reportedly told her
mother she had been
mistreated by other
prisoners.
They have since been released from
prison, but could be sent back after their
trial on Friday, where if found guilty of
homosexuality they face a minimum of six
months incarcerated.
Both of them will be defended by
the Moroccan Association of Human
Rights.
In February this year, two young men were
jailed for one and a half years in Morocco.
And in 2015, Ray Cole, a gay British man,
was briefly detained too.
_---metro news
Two teenage girls could be jailed after they
were spotted kissing and hugging each
other on the roof of a building.
The girls, aged 16 and 17, were reported to
authorities in Marrakesh, one of Morocco’s
largest cities, visited by thousands of
British tourists every year.
It is a crime to be gay in the North African
country, where according to local law any
person who ‘commits a lewd and unnatural
act’ with someone of the same sex can be
sentenced to six months to three years in
prison.
Omar Arbib from the Moroccan Association
of Human Rights told CNN Arabic that the
girls’ only supposed crime was to be seen
close to one another kissing on the
rooftop.
Both of them were
detained in an adult
jail prison wing,
where the older girl
reportedly told her
mother she had been
mistreated by other
prisoners.
They have since been released from
prison, but could be sent back after their
trial on Friday, where if found guilty of
homosexuality they face a minimum of six
months incarcerated.
Both of them will be defended by
the Moroccan Association of Human
Rights.
In February this year, two young men were
jailed for one and a half years in Morocco.
And in 2015, Ray Cole, a gay British man,
was briefly detained too.
_---metro news
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