The Botswana High Court is set to hear a bid by the government to restore the country’s former ban on same-sex sexuality, but activists remain hopeful. In June 2019, a full bench of the Botswana High Court unanimously found that the criminalisation of consensual same-sex sexual activities violates the constitutional rights of LGBTIQ people to dignity, liberty, privacy and equality.
Various sections of the penal code that prohibited “carnal knowledge of a person against the order of nature” and attracted a term of imprisonment of seven years were thereby struck down.
A month later, Attorney General Adv. Abraham M Keetshabe said that “the High Court erred in arriving at this conclusion” and announced that he would lodge an appeal against the
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