According to Reuters, the force’s commissioner Adam Dan Kafi said the sharia court charged the trio following their arrest on 14 June in the village of Gwada.
The men, aged 20, 30 and 70, were sentenced to death by judge Munka’ilu Sabo Ningi. None of them was represented by lawyers and all “confessed” to their crimes.
They were sentenced under section 134 of the 2001 Bauchi State Penal Law, which states: “Whoever commits the offence of sodomy shall be punished with death by stoning [rajim] or any other means decided by the state.”
In Nigeria, deeply homophobic laws make the lives of LGBTQ+ Nigerians a daily struggle. Many feel unable to come out, with nine in 10 Nigerians viewing homosexuality as something society should not accept, according to a 2019 Pew Research Center poll.
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