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Senegal lawmakers want to double jail time for LGBTQ people and imprison equality advocates

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Reuters. Currently, the country’s penal code imposes a sentence of up to five years in prison, along with a fine, for any person who “commits an indecent or unnatural act with an individual of his or her own sex.”The bill has been proposed for more than two years, but lawmakers were prompted by demonstrations by anti-LGBTQ activists in May calling for the government to impose enhanced penalties for LGBTQ people, with some protesters even demanding that LGBTQ people be “burned.”Senegal “is homophobic and will remain so forever,” one protester told the Agence France-Presse at the time.

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