In this file photo taken on February 22, 2019, an LGBT activist attends a court hearing in the Milimani high Court in Nairobi. – Botswana’s high court is expected to rule on June 11, 2019 on whether to decriminalise gay sex in a landmark case being watched across Africa after Kenya recently upheld its own anti-homosexuality laws.
In a courtroom packed with activists, the judge emphasised that the current laws oppressed a minority of the population.“We say the time has come that private, same sexuality must be decriminalized.”The High Court had been petitioned by an anonymous person, identified only by initials LM for security reasons.
But on Tuesday, Judge Elburu stressed that the country’s highest judicial body took the matter deeply seriously. Before Tuesday’s ruling, 28 out of 49 countries in sub-Saharan Africa had laws penalising same-sex relationships, according to Neela Ghoshal, a Human Rights Watch specialist in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights.
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