Activists Hail Lebanon Ruling that Could Protect Gay Rights

Lebanese activists have celebrated a court ruling they say paves the way towards decriminalizing homosexuality in the small Middle Eastern country. On Thursday, a Lebanese appeals court upheld the 2017 acquittal of nine people prosecuted over being gay. A lower court had found in January that year that their homosexuality was "a practice of their fundamental rights." Under a controversial article of the Lebanese penal code, sexual relations "against nature" are...

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