Sierra Leone: Anti-LGBT+ police raid last night at a private party in Freetown

According to the executive director of Pride Equity—an organization advocating for the rights of the LGBT+ community in Sierra Leone with Hispanic roots—who witnessed the incident, about ten police officers raided a private party for gay men on the night of September 2–3, 2026, at the Hill Valley Hotel in Freetown, Sierra Leone, a small English-speaking coastal nation in West Africa. As a reminder, Sierra Leone—which has been independent since 1961—inherited British colonial laws, including one dating back to 1861 that criminalizes same-sex relations. In principle, homosexuality is even punishable by life imprisonment de jure. Currently, rep…