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.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Yeah, that’s not unexpected when there are gay colonizers in France. The same phenomenon occurs in West Asia because of Israel. It’s the dialectic, the decolonial struggle adopts antithetical forms that reject the cultural imperialism of the colonizer.

    This isn’t permanent, but in this early phase of the struggle they’re just going to do the antithesis of whatever France does.

    …speaking of Israel, does France blackmail sexual minorities into being collaborators?