- Дата: 19-09-2024, 03:18
In 2014, Jammeh known as homosexuals "vermins" by saying that "We'll battle these vermins known as homosexuals or gays the identical way we are preventing malaria-causing mosquitoes, if not more aggressively". In the speech given in Tallinding, Jammeh gave a "closing ultimatum" to any gays or lesbians within the Gambia to depart the country. Previously, the nation by no means had any legal guidelines against consensual identical-intercourse activity. In the country’s Constitution's Article 629, identical-intercourse activity is criminalized with up to 15 years to life imprisonment. Queer Moroccan Refugees experience social discrimination, violence including rape and imprisonment. In Uganda there were recent efforts to institute the demise penalty for homosexuality till March 22, 2023, where gay intercourse is punishable by the loss of life penalty or life imprisonment. And as of March 22, 2023, Uganda passed the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 to make it unlawful to establish as LGBT and made it punishable with life imprisonment, and imposes the dying penalty for aggravated gay sex. In one case a chief was summoned to testify about customary penalties and reported that the penalty was a positive of one cow, which was less than the penalty for adultery. Transvestitic homosexuality additionally existed amongst the Moru, Nyima, and Tira folks, and reported marriages of Korongo londo and Mesakin tubele for the bride worth of one goat.