Dozens arrested after Malaysian police raid hotel linked to ‘gay party’
Fifty-one men have been arrested in Kuala Lumpur (Getty/iStock)
Malaysian police have detained 51 men in a series of raids on a Kuala Lumpur hotel in connection with what was described as a drug-fuelled “gay party”.
The men, aged between 21 and 52, included 28 foreigners, and authorities said they seized illicit drugs such as MDMA, ecstasy, and ketamine.
One man suspected of being at the party was found unconscious in the hotel lobby and later pronounced dead at Kuala Lumpur Hospital.
Homosexuality is criminalised in Muslim-majority Malaysia, where sodomy is a crime and sharia laws ban same-sex acts.
Of those detained, 36 tested positive for drugs, narcotics department director Hussein Omar Khan said.
