Jamaican gay man saved from mob (Flashback)

Jamaican gay man saved from mob
by Hassan Mirza
6 April 2006
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A gay Jamaican pupil is in police custody after an attack at the University of West Indies campus.
The man, whose name has not yet been released, allegedly approached another student on Tuesday evening and made sexual advances.
A group of students gathered and began attacking the man, and are said to have chased and hurled rocks at him.
The Jamaican publication The Daily Gleaner claims that it was feared that the group would have killed the student if the Police had not intervened. The students outnumbered the security officers. After a melee with the angry mob, the Police apprehended the student, and escorted him away from campus. He could face charges if guilty.
In January, JFLAG, one of Jamaica’s few gay rights groups, said that another man was chased by a mob who thought he was gay to the wharf in the city of Kingston. Fearful of a beating, he apparently leapt into the water where he drowned.
The cases follow the murder of a gay AIDs activist Lenford "Steve" Harvey, who was killed on the eve of Worlds Aids Day, as well as reports of countless beatings based on a perception of sexuality