Homosexuality in Sudan

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Sudan

In Sudan homosexuality istaboo and homosexual acts by men and women are punishable.

Social situation

Sharia applies to Muslims in Sudan . According to this, homosexual acts are punishable. The criminal liability provisions are based on Article 148 of the Criminal Code, which provides for up to life imprisonment . In July 2020, the previously valid death penalty was abolished. Likewise, the ability to punish up to 100 lashes has been abolished by the Sovereign Council , chaired by Abdel Fattah Burhan , who has ruled the country on an interim basis since the fall of Umar al-Bashir in 2019. The new regulation provides for a sentence of up to five years for the first conviction, up to seven years for a second conviction and up to life imprisonment for a third conviction.

There is no state recognition of same-sex couples due to illegality, neither in the form of same-sex marriage nor in a registered partnership .

Also because of the illegality there are no LGBT communities in Sudan. Homosexual people are pushed into the social underground.

history

Up to the present day homosexuality was taboo in the area of ​​today's Sudan. But there are reports, such as that by Siegfried Ferdinand Nadel from the 1930s, according to which there is a special socially permissible role for homosexual men among various population groups such as the Otoro , Moru , Nyima and Tira in the Nuba Mountains of the southern Kurdufan region who dressed and behaved as women.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Washington Blade
  2. ↑ ILGA: Sudan Repeals Death Penalty for Homosexuality
  3. ↑ Death Penalty Blogspot
  4. ↑ TVNZ: Africans and Arabs come out online , February 19, 2008 (English)
  5. ^ Siegfried Ferdinand Nadel: The Nuba. An anthropological study of the hill tribes in Kordofan. London: Oxford University Press, 1947