Burkina Faso bans homosexuality with prison terms and fines for offenders
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AP) – Burkina Faso’s The state publisher issued a law that prohibits homosexuality with criminals who were sentenced to two to five years of imprisonment of the parliament.
The amended Family Law was unanimously approved by Parliament on Monday by Parliament, which was approved by the Captain İbrahim Traore Military Government for more than a year after a year after it was approved by the Military Government.
Burkina Faso joins List of more than half of 54 countries in Africa This has laws that prohibit homosexuality with penalties ranging from a few years of imprisonment and death sentence. Although the laws are criticized abroad, the homosexuality of the indigenous people and authorities is not a sexual orientation, but in the countries where they criticize as behavior imported from abroad.
Justice Minister Edasso Rodrigue Bayala, during a broadcast by Devlet TV, the new law entered into force with imprisonment and fines with individuals in relations with almost the same gender. He described gay actions as “strange behavior ..
Authorities introduced the new law as the recognition of “marriage and family values ındaki in Burkina Faso.
Justice Minister, addressing the criminals, “You will go before the judge,” he said.
In 2022, Burkina Faso was ruled by the army after a coup in which soldiers said it was to stabilize the country and provide better governance in the midst of a worsening security crisis.
However, the Group of Rights, Squeeze human rights With the widespread arrest and military request of critics.
Since the second coup of Burkina Faso in September 2022 after the second coup that year, Junta leader Traore has positioned himself as a Pan-African leader with the discourse of independence from the West.
