Some gay rights activists wept outside the courtroom after the verdict.
Same-sex relationships are a crime in more than 70 countries around the world, almost half of them in Africa. South Africa is the only African nation to have legalised gay marriage.
Campaigners who filed the petition to decriminalise gay sex argued that the law violates Kenya’s progressive 2010 constitution, which guarantees equality, dignity and privacy for all citizens. Justices Chacha Mwita, Roselyne Ekirapa, and John Mativo address the court ruling on whether to uphold or nullify law banning gay sex, at the Milimani high Court in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 24 2019.The justices, who began hearing the case last year, threw out the petition, saying the ban on gay sex dovetailed with broader, traditional moral values encapsulated in Kenya’s constitution.
Aburili said the constitution still outlaws same-sex marriage but allowing gay sex would “open the door for same sex unions.”
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Kenya high court will not repeal anti-LGBT lawKenya's high court has found the petition to Repeal162 has no merit, ruling that laws targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people do not breach the country’s Constitution. CarlCollison reports.
Read more »
Where Kenya leads on queer rights, the rest of Africa must followIf Kenya’s High Court decriminalises gay sex on Friday, it will put the country on the right side of history, argues Chude .
Read more »
Zimbabwe struggle icon 'The Black Russian' dies in Kenya on way homeTheBlackRussian | Dumiso Dabengwa worked with the ANC's military wing Umkhonto weSizwe in operations that brought together Zipra and MK.
Read more »
Somalia and Kenya tensions rise in 'visa row'Somali radio reported that a deputy minister and two Somali senators holding diplomatic passports were barred from entering Kenya on Monday.
Read more »
Somalia and Kenya tensions rise in 'visa row'The Somali foreign affairs ministry contacted Kenyan authorities on Tuesday, complaining about the treatment of MPs and cabinet ministers who were forced 'to return to Mogadishu'.
Read more »
Award-winning writer and LGBTQ activist, Binyavanga Wainaina, dies aged 48 | IOL EntertainmentWainana came out publicly in 2014 in Kenya as a homosexual where laws still criminalise homosexual behaviour. He also revealed he was HIV-positive.
Read more »
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Strong parallels between Alabama abortion vote and reproductive rights in SA and KenyaIt’s no coincidence that Alabama, the US state that has just voted to ban abortion almost totally, has a statue to the man labelled ‘the father of gynaecology’ and who learnt his trade experimenting on female slaves. This was one of the lessons learnt by a group of South African girls, who found out on road trips in the US and Kenya that reproductive rights are under attack in both countries, write India Baird and Kelly Petersen.
Read more »
Kenya high court will not repeal anti-LGBT lawKenya's high court has found the petition to Repeal162 has no merit, ruling that laws targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people do not breach the country’s Constitution. CarlCollison reports.
Read more »
Kenyan high court rules against same sex marriagesKenya’s high court on Friday upheld a law banning gay sex, keeping same sex relations punishable by 14 years in jail in the conservative East African nation. Same-sex relationships are a crime in more than 70 countries around the world, almost half of them in Africa. South Africa is the only African nation to have legalised gay marriage.
Read more »
IAAF bans Kenya’s Michael Rotich for warning athletes of doping testsKenya's former athletics team manager was exposed by two undercover journalists in an article in August 2016 and was sent home from the Rio Olympic Games
Read more »
Jackie Phamotse charged for alleging Kumalos filmed gay sex tapeAuthor Jackie Phamotse has been charged with crimen injuria for comments she made last year about power couple Romeo and Basetsana Kumalo.
Read more »