insert_link Namibia High Court declares sodomy and unnatural sexual offences invalid https://youtu.be/sYFSuIL1YqE By Josia Shigwedha, via News on One Members of the country’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex and Other or LGBTQI+ community are celebrating. This after the Windhoek High Court declared that the crimes of 'sodomy' and 'unnatural sexual offences' as unconstitutional and invalid. LGBTQI+ activist Linda Baumann expressed happiness at the historic ruling. She explained that while homosexuality itself has never been […] today24 June, 2024
insert_link Namibia Namibian court strikes down law criminalising same-sex relationships A top Namibian court this morning struck down the African country's colonial-era laws criminalising same-sex relationships, in a victory for the LGBTQ community. "The common law offence of sodomy is declared unconstitutional and invalid," the high court in the capital, Windhoek, wrote in its verdict. It also declared unconstitutional the offence of "unnatural sexual offences". str-ub/zam/kjm AFP (NAMPA / AFP) today21 June, 2024
