LGBTQ campaigner found dead in Kenya


 Police in Kenya are investigating the circumstances leading to the death of a fashion designer and LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba, after his body was found dumped in a metal box by the roadside near the town of Eldoret.

Information surrounding his death is very scanty, a police spokesperson is quoted in the Star newspaper as saying. But rights organization in Kenya, where gay sex law is highly unlawful, are associating his untimely death to his sexuality.

According to a group in Kenya, more than half of the LGBTQ Kenyans have been assaulted.

Gay sex in Kenya is punishable by up to 14 years in prison. Though it is rarely enforced, members of the country's LGBTQ community often face discrimination and stigma. All efforts to decriminalize gay sex have proven futile.


Source: BBC News

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