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Human Rights Watch respond to President Jammeh's gay beheading threat

Presidentof The Gambia Yahya Jammeh, who in mid-May reportedly threatened toexpel or behead lesbian and gay people the country, should fullyretract his comments, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to thePresident on 10 June. President Jammeh has retracted histhreat to kill homosexual people, but not the threat to expel them, theHRW statement said. His comments, which HRW says were made in a speechin May, “encourage hatred… [and] contribute to a climate in which basicrights can be assaulted...