Teenage lesbians spotted kissing and hugging on Moroccan rooftop face JAIL under the country’s strict Islamic laws on being gay
One of the girls is allegedly being 'mistreated' in prison
A PAIR of teenage girls were arrested by Moroccan cops, taken to jail and could spend the next three years in prison.
Their crime? They hugged and kissed each other.
The teens, named as Sanaa, 16, and Hajar, 17, were subjected to their horrific ordeal when one of their cousins took a photo of them embracing on a rooftop and showed it to the girl's mother, who called the police.
Homosexuality is illegal in Morocco but this is believed to be the first time female minors have been prosecuted of the offence. Men are frequently been imprisoned for 'deviant sexual acts with a member of the same sex'.
Larbi Elhabbache, vice president of the Marrakesh chapter of the Moroccan Association of Human Rights, told the they learned about the arrest through someone who knows the girls and are talking to the girl's lawyer.
The legal status of LGBT people living in Morocco stems from traditional Islamic morality, which views homosexuality as immoral. Homosexuals face up to three years in prison - while rapists have walked three after three MONTHS.
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Campaign group L’Union Feministe Libre said it "strongly condemns" the arrest of the two girls and
the treatment one is being forced to endure in prison.
The statement adds: "We call out the feminist’s movement, human rights associations and Moroccan lawyers to end the series of arrests Moroccan Men and Women face on daily basis and the injustice we are now living in."
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