Commenting on a vicious 14 year jail sentence for homosexuality, handed down today against Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga in Blantyre, Malawi.

“This is an appalling, vindictive and brutal sentence, which tramples on Malawi’s constitution, violates personal privacy and reverses the country’s commitment to human rights.

“Steven and Tiwonge love each other and have harmed no one. Yet they get a sentence more severe than some rapists, armed robbers and killers.

“With so much hatred and violence in Malawi, it is sick that the court has jailed these two men for loving and caring for each other.

“The sentence echoes the era of dictatorship under President Hastings Banda, when personal prejudices determined law enforcement, and when individual rights were crushed and dissenters persecuted,” said London-based human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell of the gay rights group OutRage!.

Full article and some things you can do: http://petertatchell.net/international/14-years-for-malawi-couple-is-brutal.html