LGBTQ association achieves major legal milestone in Tunisia - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Amel al-Hilali

Amel al-Hilali

Mar 5, 2020

Mounir Baatour, president of Shams, poses for a photograph with the LGBTQ rainbow flag during a march in Tunis, Tunisia, in a picture uploaded Aug. 13, 2018. — Facebook/lgbtrightstunisia

Gays in Tunisia still suffer under archaic laws

Sarah Souli

Policemen in plain clothes force LGBT activists Radio Shams host, Fares Hadj Amor (C) and Femen's Amina Sboui into a vehicle as they disperse a protest in Tunis on January 27, 2018.
A call had been made to protest outside the tourism ministry under the hashtag "#Sayebni" ("Let me go") to demand the repeal of "retrograde" laws and the end of "the criminalisation of sexual freedom and discrimination against women". / AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID (Photo credit should read FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images)

Tunisian man jailed for reporting rape highlights LGBT struggles

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Tunisia’s LGBT activists push forward

Conor McCormick-Cavanagh

Conor McCormick-Cavanagh

Some protestors held placards reading "Down with the Article of shame", referring to Article 230 of Tunisia's penal code which punishes consensual homosexual acts, whether between men or women, with up to three years in prison.

Tunisian faces return to prison in homosexuality case

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