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Malawi: UN Rights Chief Sounds Alarm on Sentencing of Gay Couple

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–21 May 2010 – The sentencing of a gay couple in Malawi to 14 years in prison is “blatantly discriminatory,” the top United Nations human rights official said today, voicing concern over the precedent that this could set in the region.

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“I am shocked and dismayed by the sentence and reports of the treatment of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga while in detention,” High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay saidin a…

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