Several legal reforms have been passed by the Sovereign Council of Sudan, including banning of female genital mutilation, public flogging and removal of an apostasy law that punished abandonment of Islam with death by stoning.
According to Bedayaa, an organisation promoting LGBTQ+ rights in the Nile Valley area, the reform also includes an amendment to article 148 of the Penal Code, which banned same-sex relations and prescribed the death sentence.
Same-sex relations remain criminalised and punishable with time in prison of up to seven years, but the death penalty and flogging have been abolished.
Maria Sjödin, Deputy Executive Director of OutRight Action Interntional, called the new reforms an “important step for the human rights of LGBTQI