Quotes

 ‘A person who (engages in) homosexual practices … will appear before a judge and, in the event of a repeat offence, be deported if you are not a Burkinabe national.’ 

Burkina Faso’s Justice Minister Edasso Rodrigue Bayala after the transitional Parliament passed legislation outlawing conduct deemed to promote LGBTQ practices

 

‘Besigye and Lutale took a decision never to appear before Judge Baguma.’ 

Attorney Eron Kiiza after jailed Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye and his aide Obed Lutale boycotted the start of their treason trial on Monday, accusing the presiding judge of bias 

 

 ‘The petition that I read showed no proper grounds to warrant her removal… If the threshold is what we read in the petition, then I fear for the future of the judiciary.’

–Ghana’s former deputy Attorney-General, Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, criticising the decision to remove the Chief Justic, Gertrude Torkornoo 

 

‘Since when does the US embassy have jurisdiction over eSwatini’s national prisons?’ 

 Lawyer Alma David, saying lawyers are struggling to get access to the US deportees sent to eSwatini prisons