Stop Mauritania From Executing Gay People

     In Mauritania, women can be placed in prison for 3-24 months and fined $100-$2,000 for homosexual activity. Under Sharia law, however, Muslim men accused of consensual homosexual sex can face death by stoning, making it one of only three African countries (the others being Nigeria and Somalia) that offer the death penalty for homosexual activity and one of only eight in the world. 

     The death penalty has not been applied in any case in Mauritania since 1987. However, this is only more reason for Mauritania to state that they stand for human rights and abolish the death penalty as a legal punishment for consensual homosexual activity!