Convictions for homosexuality: the Senate again adopts a law of rehabilitation... without compensation

The text of Socialist Senator Hussein Bourgi was adopted unanimously, even though the left considered it "unsatisfactory". The National Assembly will have to seize the bill again at second reading, since the two chambers have expressed differences.

Approximately 10,000 convictions were handed down under the article, which established a specific age of consent, and about 40,000 for public contempt of homosexual indecentness.

While the Socialist text was unanimously voted on Tuesday, May 6, by senators, disagreement remains with the National Assembly on compensation for homosexuals who were discriminated against between 1942 and 1982.

The Senate unanimously passed a law for the rehabilitation of convictions for homosexuality between 1945 and 1982, but rejected the compensation component, causing tensions between parliamentarians. The article The Senate recognizes past injustices towards homosexuals, but refuses compensation appeared first on the Association STOP Homophobia.