Anti-LGBTQ protest in Botswana draws hundreds

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The protest comes amid a wider pushback against LGBTQ rights in southern Africa. theSun theSundaily protest Botswana LGBTQ

Demonstrators from the Coalition of Botswana Christian Churches chants slogans against homosexuality and hold placards while marching toward the Parlament of Botswana on July 22, 2023 protesting against legislation seeking to make same-sex relation legal. AFPPIX: Hundreds of people took to the streets in Botswana's capital of Gaborone on Saturday to protest against legislation seeking to make same-sex relations legal.

Last week, thousands of people took to the streets in Malawi ahead of a constitutional court case challenging the country's ban on same-sex relationships. Botswana's High Court in 2019 ruled in favour of campaigners seeking to strike down jail sentences for same-sex relationships, declaring the punishment to be unconstitutional.Gay sex had been banned since 1965 in the socially conservative African nation, where offenders could face up to seven years in prison.

 

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