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| Region | Niger |
| Issue | Homosexual activity |
| Status | Illegal (death penalty as punishment) |
| Start Date | May 4, 2000 |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | The Penal Code (Amendment) Law 2000 took effect in Niger on May 4th, 2000. Unlike most other Nigerian states, Niger enacted the Penal Code (Amendment) Law (2000) to reform its existing Penal Code, instead of adopting a whole new Sharia Penal Code. The amendment added Section 68A. Under this, Islamic criminal law is applied as found in the basic and classical sources: the Qur’an, the Hadith, and the fiqh, thereby punishing consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults (liwat) with death by stoning. |
| Sources | http://www.sharia-in-africa.net/media/publications/sharia-implementation-in-northern-nigeria/vol_4_4_chapter_4_part_III.pdf |
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| Status | Illegal (death penalty as punishment) |
| Start Date | May 4, 2000 |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | The Penal Code (Amendment) Law 2000 took effect in Niger on May 4th, 2000. Unlike most other Nigerian states, Niger enacted the Penal Code (Amendment) Law (2000) to reform its existing Penal Code, instead of adopting a whole new Sharia Penal Code. The amendment added Section 68A. Under this, Islamic criminal law is applied as found in the basic and classical sources: the Qur’an, the Hadith, and the fiqh, thereby punishing consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults (liwat) with death by stoning. |
| Sources | http://www.sharia-in-africa.net/media/publications/sharia-implementation-in-northern-nigeria/vol_4_4_chapter_4_part_III.pdf |