Ghana Supreme Court Upholds Anti-LGBTQ Bill

Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected two bids to overturn a contested piece of legislation severely curtailing LGBTQ rights which was adopted by MPs earlier this year.

“Until there is presidential assent to the bill, there is no act of which the Supreme Court will use its supervisory jurisdiction to overturn,” Avril Lovelace-Johnson, head of the seven-member panel said, reading its judgement.

AFP

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