UK URGED TO ACT ON MALAWI ARRESTS
International, News by HOMOVISION on January 8, 2010 at 11:14 am
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband is being urged to press the Malawian government to release two men, Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, who are being held on remand over their alleged homosexual relationship, to drop all charges against them and to repeal the country’s anti-gay laws.
Miliband is also being asked to seek a halt to the arrest and prosecution of three Malawian human rights campaigners, who publicly defended the jailed men and secured them legal representation.
The call comes from the London-based LGBT human rights group OutRage! spokesperson, David Allison, has written to the Foreign Secretary, appealing to him to make representations to the President of Malawi, his Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.
Meanwhile a letter of “support and solidarity” from OutRage!’s Peter Tatchell is being delivered to Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga in Chichiri Prison, Malawi. The two men, who were arrested following their engagement ceremony late last year, are being held on remand on gay sex charges ahead of their trial on 15 January 2010.
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Tags: David Miliband, Homosexuality, Human Rights, london, Outrage, Peter Tatchell, Prime minister, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
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