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Botswana’s High Court has decriminalised homosexuality in a landmark ruling.
The court ruled that laws which impose up to seven years in prison for same-sex relationships were unconstitutional.
Judge Michael Elburu set aside the ‘provisions of a Victorian era’ and ordered the laws be amended.
The judges unanimously agreed that a person’s right to privacy included the right to choose a life partner and ‘fundamental private choices, including those with regards to sexual conduct’. Read more