Burkina Faso: New Law Will Criminalize Homosexual Relations
The law also ensures the application of penalties and punishments to homosexuals, passing public punishment in the slightest of cases and reaching long prison sentences and the death penalty.
On Thursday, the government board of Burkina Faso approved a law that criminalizes same-sex relations in the Family Code of the African country.
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The law also ensures the application of penalties and punishments to homosexuals, passing public punishment in the slightest of cases and reaching long prison sentences and the death penalty.
Although it should be noted that the specific judgments have not yet been disclosed.
This decision makes Burkina Faso one of the 22 African countries of the 54 that do not allow same-sex relations, it should be emphasized that this adheres to the Muslim principles of many of them.
According to the council the decree seeks the creation of a new Personal and Family Code (CPF) that ” enshrines the prohibition of homosexuality ” in the country.
“From now on, homosexuality and related practices are prohibited and punished by law “, underlined the Minister of Justice, Edasso Rodrigue Bayala.
Burkina Faso could now join the ranks of Uganda, which enacted one of the toughest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world in May last year and contrast with Namibia, the last African state to approve homosexual relations.
