{"id":755123,"date":"2019-11-29T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/29\/court-sentences-two-men-to-15-years-for-gay-sex-in-zambia\/"},"modified":"2019-11-29T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T18:54:00","slug":"court-sentences-two-men-to-15-years-for-gay-sex-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/29\/court-sentences-two-men-to-15-years-for-gay-sex-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Sentences Two Men To 15 Years For Gay Sex In Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_726719\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-726719\" style=\"width: 695px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-726719\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/5de102b22b210.png\" alt=\"Gay sex\" width=\"695\" height=\"441\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-726719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gay sex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two men caught having sex in Zambia, back in 2017 have been sentenced to 15 years in prison by the conservative country\u2019s court.<\/p>\n<p>The men whose name have been given as Japhet Chataba and Steven Samba were said to have booked a hotel in Kapiri Mposhi community of central Zambia. They were arrested after a female worker alerted her colleagues after she peeped through the window and saw them having sex.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0BREAKING: Botswana scraps gay sex laws<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reports have it that both men were convicted in 2018 by Kapiri Mposhi Magistrates\u2019 Court but had the case taken to the high court.<\/p>\n<p>The High court judge, Charles Zulu at the end of the hearing sentenced them to 15 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trial court cannot be faulted and there is no basis to review or substitute the conviction and I further find that there were no irregularities by the trial court,\u201d Judge Zulu said, the state-owned Zambia\u00a0<em>Daily Mail<\/em> newspaper quotes him as saying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the judge, the defendants were convicted for \u201chaving sex against the order of nature\u201d \u2013 the legal phrase used to describe gay sex.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay sex Two men caught having sex in Zambia, back in 2017 have been sentenced to 15 years in prison by the conservative country\u2019s court. The men whose name have been given as Japhet Chataba and Steven Samba were said to have booked a hotel in Kapiri Mposhi community of central Zambia. They were arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court Sentences Two Men To 15 Years For Gay Sex In Zambia - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/29\/court-sentences-two-men-to-15-years-for-gay-sex-in-zambia\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Court Sentences Two Men To 15 Years For Gay Sex In Zambia - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Gay sex Two men caught having sex in Zambia, back in 2017 have been sentenced to 15 years in prison by the conservative country\u2019s court. 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