Landmark Ruling in Kenya Offers Hope

African LGBTQIA+ newswire Mamba Online reports that the High Court in Mombasa has issued a landmark interim ruling, ordering anti-gay groups and individuals to refrain from inciting violence against LGBTQ+ people in Kenya.  The court order issued on Monday restrains MPs and other anti-LGBTQ+ activists from “calling on or inciting members of the public to carry out extra-judicial killing, lynching, punishing, stoning, forcible conversion or any other means of harming LGBTQ+ identifying persons and their homes, expulsion from Kenya or any part of Kenya of LGBTQ+ identifying persons or closure of organisations serving LGBTQ+ identifying persions serving LGBTQ+ identifying persons.”  The country saw an increase in anti-LGBT+ violence recently, after the Courts ruled that the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission was a legitimate NGO or non-governmental organisation.  The Centre for Minority Rights and Strategic Litigation welcomed the development as “a major win for safety and equality in Kenya, allowing LGBTQ+ people to live with greater peace of mind.”