{"id":174969,"date":"2024-06-21T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-activists-hoping-for-positive-sodomy-law-judgement\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T11:05:10","slug":"namibia-activists-hoping-for-positive-sodomy-law-judgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-activists-hoping-for-positive-sodomy-law-judgement\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Activists Hoping for Positive Sodomy Law Judgement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em>A lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer\/questioning and intersex (LGBTQI+) activist and a human rights lawyer say they are hoping for the High Court&#8217;s positive judgement on the constitutionality of the criminalisation of sodomy in Namibia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">The judgement is expected to be delivered on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Friedel Dausab, a gay Namibian man and activist, is challenging the compatibility of the offence of sodomy and related offences with his rights under Namibia&#8217;s Constitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">In an interview by Linda&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406210346.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer\/questioning and intersex (LGBTQI+) activist and a human rights lawyer say they are hoping for the High Court&#8217;s positive judgement on the constitutionality of the criminalisation of sodomy in Namibia. The judgement is expected to be delivered on Friday. Friedel Dausab, a gay Namibian man and activist, is challenging the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[6008,258,256,17834,10202,7077,4706,724,257,6594,4572,254],"class_list":["post-174969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-activists","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-hoping","tag-judgement","tag-law","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-positive","tag-sodomy","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}