Demonstrators in Senegal call for tougher laws against homosexuals
rfi.frInternational Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).He told RFI that the Senegalese who support the homosexual community “do not dare to publicly voice their opinions”.Sunday’s rally in Senegal’s capital was organised by a group known, in the Wolof language as And Samm Jikko Yi (Together we protect our values) regrouping some 125 local associations.Nn à l'homosexualité au sénégal pic.twitter.com/yV9rG8TsHTEleven members of parliament belonging to this group tabled a draft law in December 2020 seeking to toughen already severe laws against same sex relations.
It was later rejected in January.The office of the National Assembly issued a statement saying that President Macky Sall made it clear that homosexuality will not be legalised and that it is already “severely punished by the Senegalese penal code”.Senegal’s article 319:3 states that “whoever will have committed an improper or unnatural act with a person of the same sex will be punished by imprisonment of between one and five years”.
