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Senegal President Bassirou Diomaye Faye
\nThe president of Senegal has given the green light to a highly contentious anti-LGBTQ bill that\u00a0 significantly stiffens the penalties for same-sex relations, doubling the maximum prison sentence to 10 years. The newly enacted law also criminalizes any actions considered to be attempts to \u201cpromote\u201d homosexuality, further tightening the noose around LGBTQ+ rights in the nation.
\nThe move comes despite substantial backlash from global human rights organizations, with U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk decrying the law as contrary to fundamental human rights like dignity, equality, and freedom of expression. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, both proponents of stricter anti-LGBT laws, have fulfilled their campaign promises by enacting this legislation.
\nSenegal\u2019s already stringent penal code, which previously imposed up to five years of imprisonment for \u201cacts against nature,\u201d now incorporates harsh anti-LGBTQ penalties, including fines up to 10 million CFA francs [about US $17,477). The passing of this law has coincided with an uptick in arrests on charges linked to homosexuality, and, in some cases, to supposedly intentional HIV transmission.
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This post is an edited version of the article \u201cSenegal Enacts Controversial Anti-LGBT Legislation Amid International Criticism\u201d in DevDiscourse.com.<\/p>\n\n Penalties for gay sex are doubled; prison for \u2018promoting\u2019 homosexuality Senegal President Bassirou Diomaye Faye The president of Senegal has given the green light to a highly contentious anti-LGBTQ bill that\u00a0 significantly stiffens the penalties for same-sex relations, doubling the maximum prison sentence to 10 years. The newly enacted law also criminalizes any actions considered …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3659155457675267_172535249438148":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senegal-president-signs-harsh-anti-gay-bill-into-law.jpg",1200,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senegal-president-signs-harsh-anti-gay-bill-into-law-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senegal-president-signs-harsh-anti-gay-bill-into-law-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senegal-president-signs-harsh-anti-gay-bill-into-law-768x576.jpg",618,464,true],"large":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senegal-president-signs-harsh-anti-gay-bill-into-law-1024x768.jpg",618,464,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senegal-president-signs-harsh-anti-gay-bill-into-law.jpg",1200,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senegal-president-signs-harsh-anti-gay-bill-into-law.jpg",1200,900,false],"tie-small":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senegal-president-signs-harsh-anti-gay-bill-into-law.jpg",100,75,false],"tie-medium":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senegal-president-signs-harsh-anti-gay-bill-into-law.jpg",220,165,false],"tie-large":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senegal-president-signs-harsh-anti-gay-bill-into-law.jpg",273,205,false],"slider":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senegal-president-signs-harsh-anti-gay-bill-into-law.jpg",440,330,false],"big-slider":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senegal-president-signs-harsh-anti-gay-bill-into-law.jpg",700,525,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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