Tag: #Gambia
Gay Teen Seeks Asylum After Father Cut Off Part Of His Ear • Instinct...
Teen says his father cut off his earlobe for being gay (image: Modou/GSN)
A gay teen from The Gambia says his father sliced off his earlobe to ‘mark’ him as an abomination.
Nineteen-year-old Modou is currently living in The Netherlands seeking asylum having fled his west African home country where being gay is illegal.
Until October 2014, people found to have had consensual same-sex relations were sentenced to 14 years in prison. In 2014, the laws were made even more severe upping...
