Bangladesh Police Arrests 27 Gay Men

• Sarah Colin
• May 19, 2017March 6, 2020
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According to media reports, in Bangladesh 27 men have been arrested for being gay, a crime punishable by life imprisonment. The men, mostly students aged 20 to 30, had traveled across the country to hold a party at a community centre in Keraniganj, outside the country’s capital of Dhaka. The arrests were made by the…