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Lone Nigerian captive refused to convert for Boko Haram
By SAM OLUKOYA Maj- Gen. Rogers Nicholas, Theatre Commander, operation Lafiya dole, carries one of the freed forward to meeting with
BASHIR ADIGUN school girls from the Government Girls Science and Technical College Dapchi, during a hand the girls who were freed.
Associated Press over to government officials in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Wednesday March. 21, 2018. Witnesses say The president's statement
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The Boko Haram militants have returned an unknown number of the 110 girls who were abducted from had no word on the five
mother of the only Nigerian their Nigeria school a month ago. girls still unaccounted for.
schoolgirl still in Boko Haram Also Thursday, the father of
captivity after the extrem- (AP Photo/Hamza Suleiman) one of the five girls said he
ists released 104 classmates has been told his daughter
said Thursday her daughter was the only schoolgirl still and vowed that she "will all over the world respect and the others are dead.
was blocked from boarding held by Boko Haram after not be abandoned." the injunction that there is Inuwa Garba told the AP
the vehicle to freedom and the extraordinary release Buhari, himself a Muslim, no compulsion in religion." that friends of his daughter
told to convert to Islam. of the girls on Wednesday said "true followers of Islam He added that he looked who were freed told him
Fifteen-year-old Leah re- the 16-year-old died from
fused, Rebecca Sharibu injuries in the frightened
told The Associated Press. stampede that occurred
"She was about to board during the mass abduction
the vehicle that was to in Dapchi a month ago.
bring them back. Then Boko "They told me five of the
Haram said she should con- girls died and my daugh-
vert," the mother said. ter, who was among them,
"Her friends said they tried was the first to die" the day
to convince her but she the girls were seized, Garba
said she will not convert said.
to Islam. Boko Haram said The survivors told him the
since she will not convert to bodies were buried in the
Islam she should remain be- bush.
hind. That was how they left “I believe what the girls told
her. She is alone." me because they were all
Leah Sharibu, who is Chris- together and saw what
tian, asked her departing happened,” he said.
Muslim classmates to pray The freed girls have been
for her. taken to the capital, Abuja,
President Muhammadu Bu- where they are expected
hari confirmed that Sharibu to meet Buhari on Friday.q
Kenyan court rules forced anal exams as gay test unlawful
By TOM ODULA Gay rights advocates and Lesbian Human Rights Uganda and Zambia. when it comes to renting
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A cheered the decision, say- Commission. The new ruling undoubt- property and finding jobs.
Kenyan appeals court on ing forced anal exams The commission repre- edly will have an impact on Kenya's High Court last
Thursday ruled unlawful the amount to torture. The Ke- sented the two men who those countries, Gitari said. month began hearing ar-
use of forced anal exams nya Medical Association were arrested in 2015 on In Kenya, gay sex faces a guments in a case that
to test whether two men last year condemned their suspicion of being gay and penalty of up to 14 years in challenges parts of the pe-
had gay sex, which is crimi- use. subjected to forced anal prison. nal code seen as targeting
nalized in the East African "The ruling is a tremendous exams and HIV tests. The lesbian, gay, bisexual the LGBT community. The
nation. step not only in upholding Human Rights Watch has and transgender commu- National Gay and Lesbian
The earlier high court deci- the dignity of homosexuals said Kenya is one of at least nities in the East African na- Human Rights Commission
sion was unconstitutional who'd been subjected to eight countries that have tion have complained of argues that the sections
and violated human rights, the indignities of anal ex- used forced anal exams harassment, which in some are in breach of the con-
appellate court Judge Al- aminations but also to the on suspected homosexu- cases is violent. Gay peo- stitution and deny basic
nashir Visram said during rule of law in Kenya," said als since 2010, along with ple often are ostracized by rights by criminalizing con-
the hearing in the coastal Eric Gitari, the executive di- Cameroon, Egypt, Leba- families and communities sensual same-sex relations
city of Mombasa. rector of the National Gay non, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, and discriminated against between adults.q
