Date Set for Landmark Case Aiming to Decriminalize Homosexuality in Botswana

Dan82 · Apr 8, 2011

Date Set for Landmark Case Aiming to Decriminalize Homosexuality in Botswana

The Botswana High Court has announced that it will soon take up a case that challenges as unconstitutional a section of the country's penal code that criminalizes homosexuality. The court date for this high-profiled case is set for April 15.

The case was brought by self-identifying gay citizen Caine Youngman. He will be represented by group BOENLA. Together they are arguing that S. 164 of the Penal Code, banning "carnal knowledge against the order of nature" which is interpreted against same-sex sexual conduct, inhibits freedom of expression contrary to constitutional guarantees of liberty. Furthermore, they will challenge that institutionalized and state-sanctioned homophobia has impacted HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment and therein that it is in the state's interest to overturn this provision...

Date Set for Landmark Case Aiming to Decriminalize Homosexuality in Botswana
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Date Set for Landmark Case Aiming to Decriminalize Homosexuality in Botswana

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