Namibia: Case before the High Court
The Human Dignity Trust supports a challenge to the colonial era offence of sodomy
This #IDAHOBIT, hear from Senior Lawyer, Rosie Brighouse, who has been working closely on a case in Namibia since local and well-loved LGBT activist Friedel Dausab filed his decriminalisation challenge in 2022. This case challenges Namibia's ‘sodomy’ and 'unnatural sexual offences’ laws.
Here’s Rosie in Namibia’s capital, Windhoek, in October 2023, immediately after the hearing in Friedel’s case.
The Human Dignity Trust supports a challenge to the colonial era offence of sodomy
Namibia criminalised same-sex sexual activity between men. The sentence available under the law were not clear.
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