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Gay couple in Malawi found guilty ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsMalawi

Gay couple in Malawi found guilty

A gay couple in Malawi was found guilty Tuesday of unnatural acts and gross indecency after a trial that drew worldwide condemnation of this southern African country’s colonial-era laws on…
Staff Writer
18 May 2010
Men could face up to 14 years in prison with hard labour in ‘devastating blow for human rights in Africa’ ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsMalawi

Men could face up to 14 years in prison with hard labour in ‘devastating blow for human rights in Africa’

Godfrey Mapondera in Blantyre and David Smith, Africa correspondent guardian.co.uk, Steven Monjeza (l) and Tiwonge Chimbalanga in court in Blantyre, Malawi, earlier this year. Photograph: Eldson Chagara/Reuters A couple in Malawi were today…
Staff Writer
18 May 2010
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Gay couple lawyer mitigates for non-custodial sentence ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsMalawi

Gay couple lawyer mitigates for non-custodial sentence

By NYASA TIMES Lawyer of the gay couple, Steven Monjeza, 26 and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20 convicted for homosexuality, has asked the Blantyre Magistrates Court to mete a non-custodial sentence mitigating the…
Staff Writer
18 May 2010
World leaders named and shamed as “press predators” Civic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights NewsCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice News

World leaders named and shamed as “press predators”

Seventeen presidents and heads of government made the list of “predators of press freedom” by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Included in the list of 40 are China’s Hu Jintao, Iran’s…
Staff Writer
3 May 2010
Gay couple sent to test waters, to hell with donors-Kaliata ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsMalawi

Gay couple sent to test waters, to hell with donors-Kaliata

By Nyasa Times Arraigned gay couple Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza were sent by international homosexuality campaigners to taste the resolve of Malawi, Minister of Gender, Women and Children Affairs…
Staff Writer
24 April 2010
Zuma continues to sit on army general’s report on violence Civic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights NewsInternational JusticeInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice TortureSouth AfricaZimbabwe

Zuma continues to sit on army general’s report on violence

analysis In 2008 former South African President Thabo Mbeki commissioned a fact finding mission into state sponsored violence that took place in the run up to Zimbabwe’s one man presidential…
Staff Writer
25 March 2010