{"id":51710,"date":"2023-10-27T08:44:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T08:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=51710"},"modified":"2023-10-27T08:44:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T08:44:05","slug":"mass-arrests-target-lgbtq-people-in-nigeria-while-abuses-against-them-are-ignored-activists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/27\/mass-arrests-target-lgbtq-people-in-nigeria-while-abuses-against-them-are-ignored-activists-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass arrests target LGBTQ+ people in Nigeria while abuses against them are ignored, activists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22331\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LGBT-map-Nigeria-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LGBT-map-Nigeria-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LGBT-map-Nigeria-770x514.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LGBT-map-Nigeria-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LGBT-map-Nigeria.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement authorities in Nigeria are using the country\u2019s same-sex prohibition law to target the LGBTQ+ community while ignoring abuses against them, rights groups and lawyers say,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/mass-arrests-target-lgbtq-people-in-nigeria-while-abuses-against-them-are-ignored-activists-say\/ar-AA1iVx1U?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=6585468186ca4c729b20293ca7233558&amp;ei=143\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Law enforcement authorities in Nigeria are using the country\u2019s same-sex prohibition law to target the LGBTQ+ community while ignoring abuses against them,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LGBT-map-Nigeria.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51711,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51710\/revisions\/51711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}