Kenya high court upholds law criminalising same-sex unions

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Kenya's court upheld its law in criminalising same-sex marriages.

NAIROBI: The Kenyan High Court upheld a law that criminalises same-sex relations in the East African nation, with a three-judge bench ruling the colonial-era legislation didn’t contradict the constitution.

The Kenyan constitution defines both marriage and cohabitation as the voluntary union of a man and woman, she said.

 

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