The woman who was jailed and threatened with stoning for wearing a T-shirt saying ‘Allah is a lesbian’ now faces having her arm amputated as her health continues to deteriorate in Moroccan prison.
Ibtissame ‘Betty’ Lachgar, a feminist activist, was jailed last September and sentenced to two and a half years in prison for a Facebook post in which she wore the garment, on the grounds that it was ‘offensive to Islam’.
The 50-year-old campaigner is a bone cancer survivor with a prothesis between her left shoulder and elbow, and has sustained a fractured elbow during her time so far in Salé prison, located on the outskirts of Rabat.
