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Last edited: April 16, 2007
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Tanzania
- Statute: Section 154 to 157 of the Penal Code
criminalize homosexual acts between men, no mention of women.
- Penalty: 14 years
- Restrictions:
Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous island off the east coast of Tanzania. It is predominantly
Islamic.
Under Zanzibar’s 1934 penal code, sodomy and “unnatural acts” were
offenses, but the government changed the law in 2004 to specifically deal
with homosexuality. The penalty for homosexual relations between men is 25 years’ jail, with a seven-year term for a lesbian relationship. The law sets a penalty of life imprisonment for a person found guilty
of sodomizing a minor.
News
- Birthday
Bash for the Late Freddie Mercury Canceled in Zanzibar - The
Advocate, September 1, 2006
- Islamic
Clerics: Ban Freddie Mercury Birthday - 365Gay.com,
August 29, 2006
He may be Zanzibar's most famous son but religious leaders on the mostly
Islamic island are demanding the government block an international party
to mark what would have been Freddie Mercury's 60th birthday.
- Secrecy, Stones and Insults: The Gay Life on
Zanzibar - November 8, 2004
- Zanzibar Gay Sex Ban Becomes Official -
August 23, 2004
- Zanzibar Bans Gay Sex, Sets 25-Year Prison
Penalty - August 21, 2004
- Zanzibar Gay Sex Ban Official - August 20,
2004
- Zanzibar Bans Gay Sex - August 20, 2004
- Zanzibar’s Gay Community Fears Tough New Law
Will Force It into Twilight Zone - June 2, 2004
- Call for Travel Boycott as Zanzibar Bans Gays
- April 25, 2004
- Zanzibar Bans Gay Sex - April 15, 2004
- Zanzibar Outlaws Gay, Lesbian Sex - April
15, 2004
- Zanzibar Passes Tough New Gay Sex Law -
April 14, 2004
- Zanzibar to Outlaw Homosexuality - April 14,
2004
- Zanzibar Moves to Punish Gays, Lesbians -
March 25, 2004
- Gay Men Liable to Jail for Life in Zanzibar -
March 25, 2004
- Life Behind Bars For Being Gay - March 25,
2004
- Mob Protests American Gay Tourists - 365Gay.com,
March 17, 2003
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