Homosexuality in Mali: Soon sanctions against its practice!
After an intense week of national workshop for the validation of draft bills on the penal code and the penal procedure code between legal technicians, resolutions were made to strengthen the texts of the penal code and the penal procedure code. During this workshop, the accent was focused on the penalty for people who practice homosexuality in Mali despite its prohibition by customs.
In the case of homosexuality, there is the criminalization of homosexuality without naming it, in a more global definition, of immodest and unnatural acts between people of the same sex. For the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Keeper of the Seals, Mahamadou Kassogué pointed out that homosexuality is an unnatural relationship. ''Our justice does not accept this practice of homosexuality but there was no sanction. This workshop made it possible to take resolutions to sanction homosexuality in Mali,'' he mentioned.
To implement these resolutions, Minister Kassogué made a commitment to bring this important justice reform to a successful conclusion. '' For almost a week, you agreed to devote yourself to an exercise that consisted of analyzing, criticizing, suggesting, directing and proposing to improve the quality of the two (2) draft texts that were submitted to you in order to facilitate the other essential steps to bring this important justice reform to a successful conclusion. Still the head of Malian justice, the legal practitioners during this workshop arrived at a system reconciling two (2) imperatives: one attached to modernity and efficiency and the other to respect for social values ​​and societal factors that underpin Mali's cultural identity. Read More...
