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Dorothy Aken'Ova, IGLHRC Africa Advisory Committee Member, Speaks out from Nigeria

Dorothy Aken'Ova, Executive Director of Nigeria's International Center for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights and IGLHRC Africa Advisory Committee member, speaks out from Nigeria in this AP article
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...An officer pretending to be a gay man then joined a group being counseled on AIDS, according to Dorothy Aken'Ova, executive director of Nigeria's International Center for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights.

Aken'Ova said police detained four gay men over the Christmas holidays and tortured them until they named others allegedly belonging to a gay organization. She gave no details of what she called torture, but the AIDS counselor said the four men were brutally beaten until they gave up names.

Published on January 15, 2014       | OutRight Action International an LGBT human rights organization

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