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title: "Wielding Whip and a Hard New Law, Nigeria Tries to ‘Sanitize’ Itself of Gays"
date: "2014-02-08"
authors:
  - name: "No Author"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2014/02/08/wielding-whip-and-a-hard-new-law-nigeria-tries-to-sanitize-itself-of-gays/"
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# Wielding Whip and a Hard New Law, Nigeria Tries to ‘Sanitize’ Itself of Gays