. In February, the three-judge bench pushed back its decision, citing a heavy workload, prompting dismay from a persecuted community who have fought for years to be accepted.“There are a lot of mixed emotions around this because people are just wary of the fact that it could be postponed yet again,” Brian Macharia of the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya , one of the petitioners, told AFP.
While convictions under the decades-old laws are rare, gay activists say the legislation is unconstitutional and fuels homophobia. “LGBTQ people in Kenya for years and years have faced and suffered violence and harm in unimaginable ways, but justice has not been afforded to them because of the penal code,” said Macharia.In March, the High Court banned forced anal testing of men suspected of being gay., a film about a lesbian love affair which was the first Kenyan movie to be shown at the Cannes film festival, could be screened domestically for seven days after its initial banning.
And our government will say nothing. Cause those are not human rights they only count in SA... our brothers in the struggle can trample over them 😜
Bullshit
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