{"id":37966,"date":"2012-04-03T03:59:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T03:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=37966"},"modified":"2012-04-03T03:59:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T03:59:31","slug":"reprisal-gays-life-at-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=37966","title":{"rendered":"Reprisal \u2026 Gay\u2019s life at stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jamal Fasuluku narrowly escaped death at the hands of traditional \u2018Poro\u2019 Society members and his whereabouts is still shrouded in mystery.\u00a0 A friend of Jamal lamented his buddy\u2019s demise to our Eastern province correspondent, stating that Jamal who was nineteen years at the time, was forced to be initiated into the traditional cult in place of his deceased father Sahr Fasuluku who they say was the \u2018Yamba,\u2019 that is the head of the secret society.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As tradition demands, when the Yamba passes away, his position is bequeathed to his son.\u00a0 Jamal was not in for it because of his religious beliefs. I<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">n his hidings in Kono, eastern province of Sierra Leone, he became hooked by a European visitor to Sierra Leone called John Courtwright.\u00a0 John Courtwright was a gay and because of his predicament Jamal had the only alternative of becoming a gay too.\u00a0 News of Jamal\u2019s conversion to gay practice spread in the township like wildfire in the harmattan wind. He was forced to flee together with John Courtwright to an unknown destination. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Sierra Leonean culture is very much averse to gayism.\u00a0 Traditional elders and irate youths stormed Jamal\u2019s residence in a desperate search for him.\u00a0 He could not be found so they ransacked his premises, damaged his furniture, and broke the windows in their desperation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Threats to kill Jamal loom but he is nowhere to be found.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamal Fasuluku narrowly escaped death at the hands of traditional \u2018Poro\u2019 Society members and his whereabouts is still shrouded in mystery.\u00a0 A friend of Jamal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11448,1],"tags":[11759,2038],"class_list":["post-37966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-uncategorized","tag-jamal-fasuluku","tag-poro-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}