New York-based Human Rights Watch has sent a letter to Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, who recently announced plans to rid his country of homosexuals and threatened to behead any gays that were discovered there, to drop those threats and speak out against homophobia:
Wrote Scott Long, director of HRW's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program: “We urge you to publicly disavow threats and vilification directed against gays and lesbian people in Gambia. We ask you to affirm publicly and without equivocation that all people should enjoy their rights regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Good luck with that.
The Gambia recently released two Spanish nationals who were arrested in the country after allegedly making sexual proposals to taxi drivers.
In related news, New York-based Brazilian sculptor Fernando Carpaneda, who last December showed off a doll modeled after Russian artist/photographer Slava Mogutin that he had created as a response to international homophobes, is showing off a new doll based on Gambian President Yahya Jammeh.
Check it out, AFTER THE JUMP (warning NSFW)…
