Anti-same sex law made police 'key-hole peepers' – CoA

Rainbow victory PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES
Rainbow victory PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

The sections of the Penal Code which criminalise consensual same sex relations, encourage police to become “key-hole peepers and intruders into the private space of citizens,” the Court of Appeal said this morning.

A five-judge bench of the Court of Appeal struck out two sections of the Penal Code in a historic judgement that decriminalises same sex relations. The judgement delivered by the country’s highest court essentially dismissed government’s appeal against the 2019 High Court ruling in which Letsweletse Motshidiemang successfully sued to decriminalise same sex relations.

Delivering the lengthy judgement on behalf of the bench, outgoing judge president, Ian Kirby said there was no discernible public interest in the continued existence of the sections of the Penal Code that criminalise same sex relations.

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