Reuters reports.“Those sections have outlived their usefulness, and serve only to incentivize law enforcement agents to become keyhole peepers and intruders into the private space of citizens,” Court of Appeal President Ian Kirby wrote.Under the code, same-sex relations could be punished by up to seven years in prison.
The code banned “carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature” and “indecent practices between persons,” The law dated from when Botswana was a British colony, but the nation became independent in 1966.The nation’s government had appealed the 2019 ruling, saying attitudes toward homosexuality hadn’t changed.