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Rabat – Two activists from feminist movement Femen protested in support of gay rights in Morocco by kissing each other topless in front of the Hassan Tower in Rabat on Tuesday, June 2nd.
The two women adorned only with the slogan “In Gay We Trust” written on theor bare torsos kissed each other in the esplanade of the Hassan Tower in the Moroccan capital Rabat to denounce what they described as “the injustice inflicted on the homosexual community in Morocco.”
Femen said in a communiqué carried by news website Telquel that the recent conviction of three homosexuals to three years imprisonment by the Moroccan justice is “the latest example in a long series of cases where Morocco has imprisioned people because of homosexuality.”
According to the same source, the movement has also called on Morocco “to abolish homophobic laws and honor the commitment it made during the drafting of its constitution in 2011 to ban and combat discrimination against anyone.”
Article 489 of the Moroccan Criminal Code criminalizes “licentious acts against nature with an individual of the same sex.” Under the Article, sexual acts between people of the same gender are punishable by from six months to three years in prison.
Video of Topless Femen Activists; Some May Find It Inappropriate
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