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Four men were arrested in Kano city, northern Nigeria, for allegedly perpetuating a false marriage on Facebook, which was reportedly ridiculed by the Islamic order forces.
Kano is one of 12 states in northern Nigeria where Islamic law is in force and the Hisbah police agency said Wednesday that the marriage was considered a travesty of the marriage institute.
"We arrested four men for organizing a mock marriage on Facebook, which caused public outrage," Hisbah chief Abba Sufi told AFP.
"We arrested them for mocking the sanctity of the institution of marriage," he said.
The four suspects, aged 30 to 32, were arrested Tuesday, a few days after the news that one of them would have married a young woman on Facebook at a ceremony whose other witnesses would be witnesses, said Sufi.
The groom, Sanusi Abdullahi, confessed to "joking" a Facebook friend from the city of Maiduguri, in the north-east of the country, a price of 20,000 naira ($ 56) during the "online marriage", provided that this money is paid after. she moved to her house.
His three accomplices appeared as witnesses at the ceremony, which was rather a "joke" between friends.
Sufi said the suspects had never met the "bride" in person and that they were only a "friend of the social networks" for the four men.
The incident sparked an uproar among radical clerical clerics, who called for the arrest and prosecution of the suspects.
Sufi said that Abdullahi had even received death threats on his mobile phone and was badaulted by an attacker as he was leaving the mosque after the evening prayer on Monday before his arrest.
"We must intervene so that the problem does not become uncontrollable, now that the main suspect is threatened.
"We asked the police to investigate such threats and the physical aggression inflicted on him and who wounded him in the arm," he said.
Sufi said that the suspects had shown remorse and that Hisbah was considering "closing the case" but wanted to know the state of mind of the people.
Last December, Hisbah arrested 11 young women who allegedly organized a bad marriage.
The suspects were arrested while they were planning the wedding at a hotel at the last minute, but insisted on belonging to a dance club.
In northern states, where sharia is parallel to the federal and federal justice system, homobaduality is punishable by the death penalty, though the punishment is rarely, if ever, enforced.
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