Lady captured for gay kiss in Tanzania after video circulates around the web

The recording was shared generally online in the wake of being recorded at a gathering in Tanzania, where homosexuality is a criminal offense.

Image:Homosexuality is a criminal offence in the East African nation of Tanzania. File pic

A lady could confront imprison in Tanzania after a video of her kissing another lady and giving her a ring became famous online. 

Homosexuality is illicit in the East African nation as it is considered "against the request of nature", and the lady was captured in the northwestern town of Geita after the clasp of her at a gathering was generally shared via web-based networking media. 

The town's police boss, Mponjoli Mwabulambo, said the lady was in care and that officers were hunting down the other lady in the video, which a few Tanzanians censured online as improper. 

Were the ladies to be sentenced, they could be put in the slammer.

Image:John Magufuli's presidency has seen an even stronger crackdown on homosexuals in Tanzania

The capture comes amid a much more grounded crackdown on homosexuality in the nation. 

President John Magufuli has undermined to capture and oust activists and de-enroll associations that crusade for gay rights since he came to control two years prior. 


In October, officers captured 12 men in the wake of assaulting a meeting at an inn in the previous capital city of Dar es Salaam, trusting the social occasion was advancing same-sex connections.

A year ago the nation's wellbeing service restricted non-administrative associations from dispersing free greases to gay people as a major aspect of measures to control HIV and AIDS, in spite of wellbeing specialists cautioning that closing such focused on outreach programs down could put the more extensive populace at higher danger of contaminations. 


The administration gauges that 1.4 million Tanzanians are living with HIV, out of a populace of more than 50 million.