Two more men were arrested in the north of Cyprus on charges of homosexuality. The men, who were inmates in the Central Prison in Nicosia, were accused of the crime of “sexual intercourse against the order of nature”.
BBC reports:
Euro MPs have voiced alarm after two men were arrested in Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus under a British-era law criminalising gay sex.
On Sunday, two inmates at the central prison in Nicosia appeared in court charged with having “sexual intercourse against the order of nature”.
Gay sex is not a crime in either Turkey or the Republic of Cyprus.
Amid local fears of a crackdown on gay people, MEPs urged the Turkish Cypriot authorities to repeal the law.
Marina Yannakoudakis, a British Conservative MEP, said Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu had given assurances that he would sign a repeal of the ban into law.
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