20 Arrested At Gay Wedding In Saudi Arabia
Julie Farby - All Headline News Staff Writer Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AHN)-After raiding a suspected gay wedding in the southern town of Jizan, Saudi authorities arrested 20 young men. Al-Watan newspaper reports that the detainees, who were among some 400 men attending "the wedding party of two men" on Tuesday, had been "emulating women." In all, some 250 people were detained in the police raid on the party but the rest were later released. The paper quoted a police commander as saying, Police had "arrested the wanted people and released those who have nothing to do with the matter." The newspaper also reports that some guests were seen chewing qat, an illegal narcotic widely used in neighboring Yemen, near where the party was being held. Homosexuality is illegal in conservative Saudi Arabia, which doles out strict punishments based on sharia, or Islamic law.
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