Homosexuals in Nigeria have continued to suffer discrimination and brutality which escalated following the criminalization of same sex relationships. Recently, a gay couple in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers, were
allegedly beaten and forced to have sex in public while residents watched and filmed the act.
The mob forced the gay couple out of their home and made them have sex while being filmed on camera phones in Nigeria. The vigilantes are heard jeering on the explicit video as they make the two men masturbate each other and then have anal sex outside. A large crowd of onlookers gathered to watch the men’s humiliation. The video is reported by Nigerian sources on the ground to have come from Port Harcourt, a city with a population of almost 2million including its suburban area, in the south of the country.
The exact details of the case – beyond what is captured on the video – are impossible to confirm. But NPN was told the alleged couple were informed on as being homosexual. A crowd gathered, forced them to leave the house and made them ‘re-enact’ the ‘homosexual acts’ they allegedly were carrying out in private. The footage was then shared on social media. NPN has seen the video but is not embedding to avoid exposing the two men to further danger and humiliation and because of its extremely explicit nature. The photo has been blurred to protect them.
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