Sudan has dropped the death penalty and flogging as punishments for gay sex under its penal code. Under the new law, homosexuality remains against the law.
However, the punishment for ‘sodomy’ remains prison. GSN believes the maximum sentences to be five years for the first ‘offense’, seven years for the second and life in jail for the third ‘offense’.
Previously the first two times someone was guilty of gay sex they would get 100 lashes and jail time. On the third time, they would get either a life sentence or the death penalty.
The country defines sodomy as ‘a man who inserts his penis or its equivalent into a woman’s or a man’s anus’ or ‘another man’ allowing a man ‘to insert his penis or its equivalent in his anus’.