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.

  • TheBroodian [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    There are grounds to say, I think, that if Burkina Faso manages to liberate itself from its colonial shackles, that like Cuba, with time this error will be corrected.

    It is a big fucking error and disappointment, though.