Gay Couple Arrested Over Facebook Photo
This news was originally posted by the Punch Newspaper of Friday, October 14, 2016. Indonesian gay couple has been arrested after a photo on Facebook of the men kissing sparked anger, police said Friday, in the latest move against the country’s homosexual community. There has been a growing backlash against gay people in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country this year, with government ministers and religious leaders lining up to denounce them. The 22-year-old university student and 24-year-old office worker were arrested Tuesday in the city of Manado, on central Sulawesi island, after social media users complained about the picture of them kissing in bed, police said. “The couple admitted it’s them in the picture and they posted the picture to prove their love,” local police spokesman Marzuki, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, told AFP. Homosexuality is not illegal in Indonesia, but police plan to charge the men with breaking anti-pornography laws an...