The Nigerian Police has arrested more than 200 people at a suspected gay wedding. This comes as one of the biggest mass arrests in recent years targeting the country's LGBTQ community, CNN reported. A police spokesperson in the southern Delta state on Tuesday told reporters that 67 people will be prosecuted for 'allegedly conducting and attending a same-sex wedding ceremony.'

Same-sex relationships are criminalized in Nigeria, and its penal code approves a punishment of up to 14 years in prison for people who are convicted of entering into a same-sex civil union. A police official in a a live broadcast on Tuesday described the event as evil and said 'We cannot copy the Western world we are Nigeria and we must follow the culture of this country.'