Botswana-29th Session, January 2018-Criminal laws on same-sex sexual practices

National Report

Para 94) Regarding non-discrimination to LGBTIQ+ community, on 29 November 2021, in the case of Attorney General v Motshidiemang, the Court of Appeal held that Section 164 of the Penal Code which prohibited consensual same sex relations is unconstitutional.

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Para 62) AI stated that In November 2021, the Court of Appeal upheld a High Court judgment that declared a law criminalizing consensual same-sex sexual relations unconstitutional.71 JS1 stated that although some progress had been made in repealing offending criminal legislation, there still remained Section 167 of the Penal Code, which could be used to criminalize same-sex relations between consenting lesbian, bisexual and queer women.