Pandemonium broke loose Tuesday at Kaolack, about two hundred kilometers from Dakar, when Senegalese police released eleven gay men arrested as they got married on Christmas eve.
A large crowd that gathered at the police headquarters had hoped the men would be charged and sentenced to long years of imprisonment.
But Justice ministry officials said Tuesday the prosecutor did not find enough justification to charge the men.
Police announced on Christmas Day that they had arrested only 11 out of the 20 of the gays who had gathered at a primary school for the wedding.
Nine others managed to escape, police sources said.
Media reports quoted the police as saying the gay men were nabbed with rings, wedding clothes and perfumes.
President Macky Sall insists that homosexuality will not be allowed in the country, at least during his mandate.
Homosexuality is not banned by law in Senegal, but is abhorred by the society.