Rights Groups React after Senegal Passes Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill Hiking Penalties
Advocates across Africa and beyond have expressed alarm following reports that lawmakers in Senegal has passed an anti-LGBTQ+ bill that significantly increasing criminal penalties for same-sex relationships. Same-sex intimacy has long been criminalised in Senegal under Article 319 of the penal code, which previously prescribed prison terms of between one and five years. The new […]