{"id":569516,"date":"2010-05-19T00:58:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T04:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/?p=11206"},"modified":"2010-05-19T00:58:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T04:58:03","slug":"gay-couple-in-malawi-found-guilty-of-unnatural-acts-and-gross-indecency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569516","title":{"rendered":"Gay couple in Malawi Found Guilty of Unnatural Acts and Gross Indecency"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A gay couple, Twonge Chimbalanga<\/strong> and Steven Monjeza<\/strong>, were found guilty of unnatural acts<\/strong> and gross indecency<\/strong> last Tuesday. It was the result of the couple holding and engagement ceremony<\/em>. The magistrate stated that the couple will be sentenced on Thursday. In Uganda, a law was recently proposed where homosexuals are to be executed. Just last month, President Bingu wa Mutharika<\/strong> was quoted calling homosexuality as \u201cevil and bad before the eyes of God\u201d and an act \u201cwe Malawians just do not do.\u201d \u00a0The magistrate, Nyakwawa Usiwa Usiwa<\/strong>, referred to the crime as \u201cbluggery,\u201d and found both men guilty of \u201ccarnal knowledge\u201d which was \u201cagainst the order of nature\u201d. He stated that the two men had been \u201cliving together as husband and wife<\/em>,\u201d which \u201ctransgresses the Malawian recognized standards of propriety.\u201d Each of them could face 14 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Malawi is a nation that sees homosexuality as nonexistent of something that must be suppressed. Chimbalanga and Monjeza were brought out through the back door to escape from a mocking crowd that celebrated the couple\u2019s conviction. The couple had been in jail since December 28, 2009, two days after their engagement party at a lodge where Chimbalanga worked as a cook and housekeeper. The chief prosecutor, Dickens Mwambazi<\/strong>, said \u201cIn Malawi, we don\u2019t allow men to marry men or women to marry women. I think 90 percent of the crowd here agrees with the ruling.\u201d Dunker Kamba<\/strong>, the administrator for a group that provides counseling about AIDS,\u00a0 said \u201cAs much as I expected a guilty verdict, I still hoped for a miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    A gay couple, Twonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza, were found guilty of unnatural acts and gross indecency last Tuesday. It was the result of the couple holding and engagement ceremony. The magistrate stated that the couple will be sentenced on Thursday. In Uganda, a law was recently proposed where homosexuals are to be executed. Just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}