Teenage girls face three years in prison for kissing in Morocco

Two teenage girls could be jailed after they were spotted kissing and hugging each other on the roof of a building.
The girls, aged 16 and 17, were reported to authorities in Marrakesh, one of Morocco’s largest cities, visited by thousands of British tourists every year.
It is a crime to be gay in the North African country, where according to local law any person who ‘commits a lewd and unnatural act’ with someone of the same sex can be sentenced to six months to three years in prison.

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Omar Arbib from the Moroccan Association of Human Rights told CNN Arabic that the girls’ only supposed crime was to be seen close to one another kissing on the rooftop.
Both of them were detained in an adult jail prison wing, where the older girl reportedly told her mother she had been mistreated by other prisoners. They have since been released from prison, but could be sent back after their trial on Friday, where if found guilty of homosexuality they face a minimum of six months incarcerated.
Both of them will be defended by the Moroccan Association of Human Rights.
In February this year, two young men were jailed for one and a half years in Morocco.
And in 2015, Ray Cole, a gay British man, was briefly detained too.
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