{"id":177377,"date":"2024-07-27T14:27:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T12:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-appeals-against-same-sex-judgement\/"},"modified":"2024-07-27T14:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T12:27:37","slug":"namibia-govt-appeals-against-same-sex-judgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-appeals-against-same-sex-judgement\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Govt Appeals Against Same-Sex Judgement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>A landmark High Court judgement in which the common law crimes of sodomy and &#8220;unnatural sexual offences&#8221; were declared unconstitutional a month ago is set to be challenged in Namibia&#8217;s Supreme Court.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This is after the Office of the Government Attorney filed an appeal notice in the Supreme Court at the start of this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">The notice records that the attorney general, minister of justice, minister of home affairs, immigration, safety and security, minister of defence and veterans affairs and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407260218.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 landmark High Court judgement in which the common law crimes of sodomy and &#8220;unnatural sexual offences&#8221; were declared unconstitutional a month ago is set to be challenged in Namibia&#8217;s Supreme Court. This is after the Office of the Government Attorney filed an appeal notice in the Supreme Court at the start of this week. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00400376:d635c8681e9afc6bb93e2b725ef986cc:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,4344,4357,10202,4706,724,257,26257,254],"class_list":["post-177377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeals","tag-govt","tag-judgement","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-samesex","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00400376:d635c8681e9afc6bb93e2b725ef986cc:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177377","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=177377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}