{"id":12821,"date":"2023-08-03T09:54:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T09:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=12821"},"modified":"2023-08-03T09:54:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T09:54:57","slug":"malawis-lgbtqi-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=12821","title":{"rendered":"Malawi\u2019s LGBTQI controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Thengo Kavinya<\/strong><br>Managing Editor, Malawi Medical Journal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>E-mail: mmj@kuhes.ac.mw<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Same-sex sexual activity is prohibited in Malawi under the Penal Code, which criminalises acts of \u2018carnal knowledge against the order of nature\u2019 as well as \u2018gross indecency\u2019; proclaiming a maximum penalty of 14 years imprisonment.<br>Following her independence in 1964, Malawi, formerly Nyasaland, inherited former colonial master Britain\u2019s English criminal law which was imposed upon the then Protectorate in 1930. For the past six decades, Malawi has thus retained<br>the law criminalising same-sex sexual activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/LGBTQI-Opinion.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thengo KavinyaManaging Editor, Malawi Medical Journal E-mail: mmj@kuhes.ac.mw Same-sex sexual activity is prohibited in Malawi under the Penal Code, which criminalises acts of \u2018carnal knowledge against the order of nature\u2019 as well as \u2018gross indecency\u2019; proclaiming a maximum penalty of 14 years imprisonment.Following her independence in 1964, Malawi, formerly Nyasaland, inherited former colonial master Britain\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12823,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821\/revisions\/12823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}