BASSETERRE, St Kitts – The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) on Monday upheld a motion by Jamal Jeffers, a self-described gay man challenging the constitutionality that sections 56 and 57 of the Offences Against the Person Act, criminalises buggery and indecent assault against males respectively. Jeffers, a citizen of St Kitts-Nevis as well as the second claimant, the St Kitts and Nevis Alliance for Equality (SKNAFE), had in a motion …
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UNAIDS welcomes a St. Kitts and Nevis High Court ruling that laws criminalizing gay sex are unconstitutional, meaning that they are immediately struck from the legal code. The Court upheld the plaintiffs’ claim that Sections 56 and 57 of the Offences Against the Person Act violated the right to privacy and freedom of expression.