To mark Africa Freedom Day, which fell on Monday (25 May), President Edgar Lungu released 3000 prison inmates including Japhet Chataba, 39, and Steven Samba, 31, according to the government gazette.
Chataba and Samba were sentenced to 15 years in prison last year under a law that forbids couples from having sex “against the order of nature,” a decision that resulted in outrage from Zambia’s United States ambassador.