relationship walking into the court room while covering his face
Amnesty International is calling on Zambia to release two men who have been in jail since May on charges of engaging in homosexual acts “against the order of nature.”
James Mwansa and Philip Mubiana, both 22, will appear in court today for a judge to decide if they should be detained longer.
“It is high time that individuals stopped being persecuted because of their real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. Human rights are about the dignity and equality of all people,” said Simeon Mawanza, Amnesty International’s Zambia researcher.
The pair was arrested after a neighbor reported them to the police, according to Amnesty International.
Authorities subjected them to anal examinations without their consent and forced them to confess, the human rights group said.
“Anal examinations conducted to ‘prove’ same-sex conduct are scientifically invalid, and if they were conducted without the men’s consent, contravene the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment under international law,” said Simeon Mawanza, an Amnesty researcher in Zambia.
It was the second detention for the two men in recent days, the group said.
On April 25, authorities arrested them, and later released them on bail on May 2.
They were arrested again just four days later after a neighbor went to the police, according to Amnesty.
Both have pleaded not guilty.
Zambian officials were not immediately available for comment.
Who is Amnesty International to tell us what to do and when to do what when our nationals break the Law? We are a sovereign state and as such, no one is qualified to instruct us when to effect arrests on wrong doers and breaking the Law with impunity. Same sex intercourse/marriage is forbidden in Zambia, full STOP!
@Nkope….walasa mwaice!..well said!! let them take and continue doing those sodomic acts in their own Nations NOT here!!! NOT on this land!! aikona!
Amnesty is right to tell you that your inherited law prohibiting other people’s innocuous sexual activities is silly. Try buying enough vaccines for your kids instead of going after a bricklayer and a hairdresser who weren’t doing anything to anyone!
What a continent full of people who denounce homosexuality yet at the same time rape babies because they think it helps them get rid of AIDS.
who are those telling us what to do, leave us alone and take your rubbish same sex marriage to your place, I wonder how can you support such a thing it got to show that you also do the same , how were you born?
Human rights abuse in Syria has resulted in countless deaths of people. Hundreds of innocent children were murdered using Gas. Amnesty International must focus its whole attention and energies on Syria and other troubled nations where human rights abuse are the order of the day; than focussing on 2 disoriented men in Kapiri rural.
just imagine!!
On this one don’t listen to Amnesty.
It is a circus, sleeping with same sex? these young men have started sleeping with chickens and cows, sic.
homosexuals do not sleep with chickens and goats its “others” that do!!
Lets say no to this, and reject them frm the communit so that those organisation can take them out of our country.
is Amesty International so irrelevant that they can’t distinguish a crime from a right?
The one who was inspecting their bums is also sick and culpable.
^their behinds……for crying out loud!
he probably got horny doing that
Indeed release them! The government has no moral authority in this matter when it ignores all of the straight people having sexual relations ‘against the order of nature’ only to target the gays. Leave your neighbour alone to live his/her own life for heaven’s sake!
Indeed the gays are funny people. How do they think they were conceived? Its just the new world order and its plan to reduce world population hence encouraging such practices. Thats why Russia has refused to say the more gay people become the less people are born, the weaker the terriories. Wake up people. You can’t go against Gods plan whether you believe or not. International! Panse!
I dont think it’s about being funny or not knowing how they were concieved, i think it’s about being selfish as well as disobeying God in not heeding to his world of populating the earth.
Prepare for hard times
hahahahaha!
Haven’t heard that word in a while,….
Last time i heard that was in the Movie Face/Off
“Amnesty International don’t even know we exist……. When i say your a$$ belongs to me,…. i mean exactly that”….
I would not be surprised if Amnesty International starts defending people having sex with chickens and goats. Don’t defend folly for sake of making ends meet. God created man and woman, blessed them and told them to multiply and fill the earth and not man and man. Those working for Amnesty International are products of the blessed union of marriage that God instituted. Well, a day of reckoning is coming and we shall see how Amnesty International will present its case to King Jesus.
My advise to you is to repent and follow God’s guidance on sexual relations and marriage otherwise the wrath of God awaits you.
Is Amnesty International telling us why of all the people behind bars in Zambia today, these two should be released? Are they more human than any other person behind bars in Zambia today? What is that word they use to call such organizations? It’s starts with F and ends with K?
And the honey moon continues……., some people must be dying with jealous their honey moons lasts only for tow weeks maximum!
Dont shoot please….. two weeks.
Rubish AmneSty International!Go to Syria,Argentina,Egypt,Congo DRC,Sudan etc wht ve done to any of these ?Nothng!Useless pompwes.
ZAMBIA SHOULD PULL OUT ITS MEMBERSHIP FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BECAUSE ITS AN ORGANIZATION THAT PROTECTS THE INTEREST OF ANIMALISM.
Amnesty is always contraversial, I dont know wat its world stance is, remember the contraversial Ngande Mwanajiti he used to speak rubbish he was the first country direct for this org in Zambia. Its SATANIC,DEVILISH AND EVILISH. Remember that the devil is an opposit to what JEHOVA institutes, remember God said ‘THOU SHALL DIE he came and say YOU SHALL NOT DIE, continue GOS said Marry and bleed on earth he comes Do not Marry or marry same sex do not BLEED (or mwifyalana). Remember that these pipo are working day and nyt to reduce on human or population so that when they institute new world order(666) it wont be difficult to control the world no wonder there are so many vaccines, cervical cancer and circumcision.
Amnesty to help with your rubbish reasoning we are a nation with rules and regulation and dont interfere in our business we are a sovereign state same sex is a taboo in Zambia and abaice deserve this indeed look at Syria there are more human rights aobuses that this naimwe
To hell with your rubbish reasoning