Killg of LGBTQ+ activist prompts outcry over anti-gay attacks Kenya | Kenya | The Guardian

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• GAY DATG NAIROBI AREA
• KILLG OF LGBTQ+ ACTIVIST PROMPTS OUTCRY OVER ANTI-GAY ATTACKS KENYA
• KENYAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS KILLED

GAY DATG NAIROBI AREA

Homosexualy is taboo Kenya and across much of Ai and gay people often face discrimatn or persecutn.

Attempts to overturn Brish lonial-era laws banng homosexualy Kenya have proven unsuccsful, and gay sex remas a punishable crime wh penalti that clu imprisonment of up to 14 years. Ai|Kenyan Gay Rights Activist Is Killed ADVERTISEMENTEdw Chiloba’s body was dumped on the roadsi by a movg vehicle the untry’s wt. Police have arrted his iend and are pursug two others the Leteipa/Associated PrsNAIROBI, Kenya — A gay activist and fashn signer was murred and his body found stuffed si a metal box Kenya, the police said on Friday, another episo that raised qutns about dangers and discrimatn faced by gay people across the East Ain Chiloba’s body was found the box after was dropped by the si of the road om a movg vehicle wh no license plate Uas Gishu unty the untry’s wt.

KILLG OF LGBTQ+ ACTIVIST PROMPTS OUTCRY OVER ANTI-GAY ATTACKS KENYA

The pennt Kenya Human Rights Commissn lled his killg “reprehensible” and “eply unjt” and said was worried about the latg vlence targetg gay Kenyans.

“This is a ighteng crime but ’s beg mon Kenya — evince of a growg epimic of vlence the untry, ” the anizatn said a is not illegal to intify as a homosexual Kenya, a lonial-era law crimaliz nsensual gay sex as “agast the orr of nature, ” wh those ught facg up to 14 years prison. Arrts and prosecutn unr the laws are rare, but activists say they enable homophobia, and expose members of L.

KENYAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS KILLED

Chiloba was a fashn signer and mol who often spoke up about gay rights, and how clivy and diversy were at the heart of his brand. “After explag my prediment, the doctor asked if I was gay. The doctor asked him to go to pro-gay rights civil society groups stead, Ndiretu said.

While there is no prehensive data on the exact number of gay people Kenya, the Gay and Lbian Coaln of Kenya (GALCK) timat to be at 1. Strict ernment laws agast homosexualy mean that the anisatn nnot rry out a prehensive cens, acrdg to Kelly Kigera, an admistrator at GALCK. Human rights rearchers and activists have documented a steady rise of hostily agast gay people cludg harassment by ernment forc Kenya, which is still a nservative society.