Categories: Rex Wockner
      Date: Aug 10, 2007
     Title: Italy lets Senegalese gay man stay

Italy's top court for civil and criminal cases, the Supreme Court of Cassation, has ruled that a gay illegal immigrant from Senegal can remain in Italy for now, and ordered a judge to examine the man's claim that he faces persecution in Senegal based on his sexual orientation.



 
 

International News by Rex Wockner

 

Italy lets Senegalese gay man stay

 

Italy's top court for civil and criminal cases, the Supreme Court of Cassation, has ruled that a gay illegal immigrant from Senegal can remain in Italy for now, and ordered a judge to examine the man's claim that he faces persecution in Senegal based on his sexual orientation.

 

The court denied a request to overrule a Turin judge who had annulled the man's deportation order, local media reported July 29.

 

The new ruling said "homosexuality is a condition of the human being deserving legal protection" and "sexual freedom must be construed as freedom to live without interference and restrictions with reference to sexual preferences."