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Kenya High Court declines to decriminalise anti-gay sex law

A tattoo of an LGBT activist is seen during a court hearing in the Milimani high Court in Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya. February 22, 2019. High Court on May 24, 2019 declined to scrap laws which criminalise homosexuality. PHOTO | REUTERS

By  Sam Kiplagat

Court Reporter based in Nairobi, Kenya

Nation Media Group

Kenya's High Court on Friday declined to decriminalise sections of the penal code that make it illegal to have consensual same sex.

Judges Roselyn Aburili, Chacha Mwita and John Mativo noted that phrases used in the penal code are clear and disclose offences known in law.

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