Malawi court convicts ‘gay-poster’ man
Blantyre Magistrate Court on Friday convicted a man who was arrested for putting up posters championing gay rights in a continued anti-gay clampdown in Malawi.
Peter Sawali, 21, was found with stacks of expertly and expensively printed posters displaying such messages as “Gay rights are human rights” was answering charges of conducting himself in a manner likely to cause breach of peace. He was arrested on January 29.
Sawari who claimed that he could neither read or write, told the court that he was not aware of the message that was on the placards.
He claimed that a person he did not identify promised to pay him a sum of two thousand kwacha for pasting the placards.
The court meted a community sentence for him and he will be sweeping around the Blantyre Magistrate court in the commercial city every week day starting from eight o’clock in the morning to five o’clock in the afternoon with a one hour lunch break at twelve noon.
Police says they are looking for other Malawians whom they believed were working on a campaign with outside help.
The Blantyre Magistrate Court however failed to continue hearing of a case in which two men – Steven Monjeza and Tionge Chimbalanga – are being accused of practicing homosexuality.
Sources said the case failed because the presiding magistrate was not available in court.
This is the second time in a week that the case that has attracted attention both locally and internationally had failed to take place.
On Wednesday this week the case could not resume purportedly because a license for the defense counsel had expired.
The two suspects, have been in detention since their arrest in December last year after they allegedly held a traditional engagement to get married.
define human rights????? when pple commit adultery malawi govt does not arrest thm. if a person finds the person of the same sex attractive, plz let thm be. do not judge. jus pray for thm. gayism is deep psychology u cnt jus stop pple. puttinng thm in prison does not solve anythg, thyy are still surrounded by men. so what u going to do abt tht?????? i have alot of gay frds, n i have accepted thm. hw many gay english or american pple are in malawi n being accepted. if u denied these pple thy cld sue u 4 discrimination. u allow visitors and discriminate ur own pple. take a look at the man in the mirror b4 u walk out ur door.
Shorty ..Leave Malawi a sovereign country no need to copy from Englsh or somewhere and do not pollute foreign morals,Gay is the work of satanists!!
HERE IS SOME MORE READ UP ON GAY ISSUES IN UGANDA:
Obama slams Uganda’s anti gay bill 2010-02-05 08:24
http://www.news24. com/Content/ Africa/News/ 965/144138b383c8 4fe7bafc4d007440 bd98/05-02- 2010-08-24/ Obama_slams_ Ugandas_anti_ gay_bill
Kampala – Uganda’s ethics minister on Thursday dismissed virulent criticism of his country’s proposed anti-gay law by US President Barack Obama and warned that any interference would be “unacceptable” .
“Somebody should tell President Obama that the parliament is doing its legislative duty in the interest of the people of Uganda,” James Nsaba Buturo, Ugandan minister of ethics and integrity, said. Obama described the Uganda bill as “odious” in remarks at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, a bipartisan gathering of lawmakers and religious leaders in Washington DC.
US presidents traditionally attend the event, but it sparked controversy this year because the Christian group that is a sponsor of the meeting has been linked to Uganda’s much-criticised anti-homosexual legislation.
Buturo, one of the main Ugandan proponents of the bill which would further criminalise homosexuality and even gay rights advocacy, vowed that Ugandan MPs would not be swayed by US or any outside criticism. “We cannot tell the Senate what to do. We cannot tell Congress what to do. So why do they feel that they can tell us what we should do in the interest of our people?” he asked.
Aggravated homosexuality
“It is totally unacceptable, ” Buturo added, in reference to any attempt by some of Uganda’s partners to reverse the adoption of the bill. “Members of parliament have a constitutional duty to choose between what the people of Uganda want and what others want, and I am sure they will choose what the people of Uganda want,” he said. Uganda’s proposed bill would impose the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” , applicable in cases of rape of a minor by a person of the same sex, or where one partner carries the Aids virus.
It would also criminalise public discussion of homosexuality and could penalise an individual who knowingly rents property to a homosexual. Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda, punishable by life imprisonment in some instances. The penal code identifies “carnal knowledge against the order of nature” as an offence.
While a conservative wing of the Ugandan regime continues to push for the bill, some politicians have warned that its adoption could cost the country dearly in foreign financial assistance and image.
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Tiyambe mathanyula chifukwa cha Two Kwacha ya Obama. A Shorty with your gay friends please understand that adultery is a social construct based on doctrines of judeo-christian values that were developed in the middle east and Europe to protect inheritance (property right). The same notions were developed in Africa to protect the nuclear family entity as a way of ensuring property rights. Muchichewa nde kuti – kuteteza wanthu kuti ena asawadyele thukuta lawo. So that wina asamadyetse mkazi pamene wina akumagona naye. Kudyelana masuku pamutu.
Homosexuality on the other hand is an unnatural sexual attraction for a member of the same sex. Chifukwa chake amachita kokhalila kwa mzake since nature did not provide an opening in males for the act. Kuchita kugwilitsa Vaseline. The Ugandans have it right, a little too harsh but right. Obama azidandaula za China. Asayese masewela.
married people have right to have sex but is not their rights to have sex on public same this people they have their rights but is not their rights to have sax through kokhalira I believe sex is the two way activity amavabwino ndindani pamenepa
amangeni opusa onse. kaya akupatsidwa ndalama. azungu asatipusitsa. Malawi ndi dziko lathu, no experiments in our blessed Malawi
If God forbid Homosexuality and The land of Malawi is in the hands of God “PSALM 24v 1, Who is Obama and all foxs who are behind this. Late the law take its course.
Human rights does not necessarily mean that what you do is right. You may have the right but doing a wrong thing. If God forbid Homosexuality and The land of Malawi is in the hands of God “PSALM 24v 1, Who is Obama and all foxs who are behind this. Late the law take its course.
Njatani onse okonda zonunkha kuti ena atengerepo phunziro. Asamaname kuti ndichibadwidwe kumachita zonyansazi amatsata ndalama basi! How can a normal person be attracted to feaces? Za uve basi!
If God repealed His own laws of Moses thru Jesus, eg people failed to stone the adulterous woman, & again saying sabbath was made for man & not man made for sabbath, this means faiths had to over-ride law. Leave out God in your talk who created these gays and he will judge them alone. If the law of the land convicts them today, fine, & if it may be repealed, no deal, they are harmless God’s own.
Some how its disease free
I still dont understand those peaple who are supporting those gay couple, guys your just showing senseless of human those rights that you`re talking about is just wasting time. not in our country pliz.
AMALAWI ZINA NA LEKU ZINA KAMBU!!!!NKHANI TIKHALIRE YA MA GAY???? ZISILU ZIMENEZO ASAZITULUSE ZILAPE!!!! ZATIONONGELA MBIRI YA MALAWI.
Chikhalidwe chathu chimene chimatipangitsa kukhala amalawi sichilora zanselu ngati zimenezi. Tiyeni tialekere omwe chikhalidwe chao chimalora mathanyula azichitana ma thanyulawo. Let us be proud of our nation and our culture which identify us as Malawians