Tortured For Being Gay

First the police targeted the gay men, then tortured them into naming dozens of others who now are being hunted down, human rights activists said on Tuesday, warning that such persecution will rise under a new Nigerian law.

A 23-year-old man has been tortured to death in Russia in an apparent homophobic attack, investigators said Sunday, amid growing fears by rights groups that anti-gay sentiments are on the rise in the country.

After he had been punched, kicked and stripped of his clothes and jewelry, the 17-year-old man was given a choice: the bat or the pipe.

He was told there was a party at a brick house on Osborne Place, a quiet block set on a steep hill in the Bronx. He showed up last Sunday night as instructed, with plenty of cans of malt liquor. What he walked into was not a party at all, but a night of torture -- he was sodomized, burned and whipped.There were nine attackers, ranging from 16 to 23...

First the police targeted the gay men, then tortured them into naming dozens of others who now are being hunted down, human rights activists said on Tuesday, warning that such persecution will rise under a new Nigerian law.

A 23-year-old man has been tortured to death in Russia in an apparent homophobic attack, investigators said Sunday, amid growing fears by rights groups that anti-gay sentiments are on the rise in the country.

After he had been punched, kicked and stripped of his clothes and jewelry, the 17-year-old man was given a choice: the bat or the pipe.

He was told there was a party at a brick house on Osborne Place, a quiet block set on a steep hill in the Bronx. He showed up last Sunday night as instructed, with plenty of cans of malt liquor. What he walked into was not a party at all, but a night of torture -- he was sodomized, burned and whipped.There were nine attackers, ranging from 16 to 23...