Burkina Faso's junta passes law banning homosexuality
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Burkina Faso's ruling junta on Monday unanimously passed a law banning homosexuality as part of a wider reform of family and citizenship legislation. The new law, which aligns with a broadening crackdown…

Junta-run Burkina Faso has passed a law banning homosexuality and instituting punishments of up to five years in jail, the latest in a clutch of African nations to pass anti-gay legislation.

“The law provides for a prison sentence of between two and five years as well as fines,” Justice Minister Edasso Rodrigue Bayala said on national broadcaster RTB.

“If a person is a perpetrator of homosexual or similar practices, all the bizarre behaviour, they will go before the judge,” he said, adding that foreign nationals would be deported under the law.

  • ghost_of_faso3@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    Thanks for providing a better perspective on this than french media, if they where actual reporters they would have done this work also.

    • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
      17·
      6 days ago

      Well, we all know that the french capitalist media doesn’t really care about our LGBT+ comrades neither our Burkinabe comrades. They only care to further their imperialist goals in the region which is to desestabilize Burkina Faso and to plunder their resources.