"Homosexuality is not a crime". Welcome to a judicial decision in Beirut

"Homobaduality is not a crime". Welcome to a court ruling in Beirut, according to Donia al-Watan, the website of the Al-Wasat newspaper is sending you the news that "homobaduality is not a crime".
Activists and human rights organizations praised the decision of the Beirut Returning Court in which nine people were acquitted of homobadual behavior charges.

Homobaduality does not constitute a crime since it includes mature people and does not enter public places, "according to the newspaper.

The Helm organization on gay rights in Beirut wrote via Twitter: "Congratulations … The Court of Appeal supports for the first time a judicial decision: homobaduality does not exist. is not a crime. "

The Court of Appeal On Thursday in Beirut, a court acquitted nine homobadual and transgender persons and asked the judge to "reverse the obstacles" to their right because "the alleged acts constitute an experience of their fundamental rights without exceed".

Following the first decision, the verdict was reversed but the Criminal Court confirmed it, noting that the text of section 534 should be interpreted as "With social development , "and considered that the law" does not suddenly receive the punishment of anomalies, but of public morality. "

" The court of appeal is superior to the courts of first instance, "he said.

Article 534 of the Lebanese Penal Code considers that "unlawful" badual relations are illegal and impose on their practitioners a term of imprisonment of up to one year, without Direct to homobaduals, and demanding Activists defend the rights of homobaduals to abolish it.

This is the first time that Mr. H similar to the Court of Appeal, having been four trial court has confirmed the same in the past.