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Burkina Faso's Junta passes law banning homosexuality (www.france24.com)
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Junta-run Burkina Faso has passed a law banning homosexuality and instituting punishments of up to five years in jail, the latest in a clutch of African nations to pass anti-gay legislation.

"The law provides for a prison sentence of between two and five years as well as fines," Justice Minister Edasso Rodrigue Bayala said on national broadcaster RTB.

"If a person is a perpetrator of homosexual or similar practices, all the bizarre behaviour, they will go before the judge," he said, adding that foreign nationals would be deported under the law.

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah not even a link to a source or announcement from the government. Here is a comment I found from The Deprogram sub on reddit: https://reddit.com/comments/1n6avoo/comment/nbzbn98

I feel the same, if you google it, every article uses the same Fr*nch source for the story, and they're all almost identical in writing too. The law was proposed in July 2024, and only passed now. The only 'credible' source I could find was some place that collects bills in PDF format, but they even stated

To enter into force, it would require parliamentary approval before being promulgated by the president. ILGA World's Research team is currently working to find a copy of the bill.

So the proposed bill isn't available anywhere I can find it, and now it's suddenly passed 'unanimous' according to "Agence France-Presse?" Smells fishy.

But that aside, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was introduced and did actually pass, lots of African countries including Mali (their massive northern neighbour) has passed a law criminalising LGBTQ activities. Ghana, Uganda...