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The Government of Senegal Intends to Pass a Law to "Harden Sentences" for Homosexuality
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The country is shaken by two separate cases, one on charges of homosexuality and the other on alleged offences of child criminality, a climate conducive to amalgam, which explains the authorities' choice to give a legislative twist.
The bill still needs to be debated by the country's National Assembly, in which a climate of homophobia has been established.
Senegal is preparing a reform of the Penal Code that would increase the penalties for homosexual relations and broaden the criminalization to include the apology and financing of such acts. Human rights organisations are warning about the consequences for the security and dignity of LGBTQIA+ people. Article Senegal: A bill tightens the repression of LGBTQIA+ people and raises concern has appeared first on the Association STOP homophobia.
A bill has just been adopted by the Senegalese Council of Ministers to tighten the repression of homosexuality. At the same time, since the beginning of February, several arrests of personalities presented as homosexuals have been breaking the chronicle and heating up several religious associations.
The Council of Ministers, meeting yesterday in ordinary session, adopted a bill amending Act No. 65-60 of 21 July 1965 on the Criminal Code, specifically aimed at revising article 319, provides for a significant increase in the punishment of acts against nature, with a more precise definition of offences, an increase in the penalties incurred and the introduction of new charges relating to the apology and financing of such practices. The adoptio…
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