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He told Think Progress that many of the accusations of homosexuality are made up by disgruntled neighbours, family members or even scorned former lovers.<\/p>\n
Other examples of people being convicted include two women who had been in jail for 9 months after neighbours reported them – despite there being no evidence.<\/p>\n
And three men arrested by police for allegedly having sex in a vehicle – they denied this – were convicted solely on the basis that they were dressed effeminately.<\/p>\n
Mr Togue said: “To catch people having sex, to catch them in the act, you have to break the law. You have to violate their privacy, which is an offense.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the police will not focus on the offense of breaking the privacy of someone, but they will focus on the fact that they saw two people of the same gender having sex.\u201d<\/p>\n
He says most of the stigma around homosexuality is driven by religious sectors in the country.<\/p>\n
In 2012, former Cameroon archbishop Simon-Victor Tony\u00e9 Bakot described homosexuality as a “shameful, a disrespectful criticism of God who has chosen to create man and woman.\u201d<\/p>\n
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A man who loved drinking Bailey’s Irish Cream was convicted by a Cameroon judge for ‘being a homosexual’. Having\u00a0same sex relations\u00a0has been illegal in the African country since 1972 and anyone accused of doing so can be fined and even handed a prison term as long as five years. Now a Cameroonian lawyer has lifted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":48872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[7],"yoast_head":"\n