{"id":11955,"date":"2015-12-09T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=11955"},"modified":"2022-10-04T16:41:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:41:02","slug":"jamaican-gay-activist-launches-constitutional-challenge","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/jamaican-gay-activist-launches-constitutional-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaican Gay Activist Launches Constitutional Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<b>TORONTO, December 9, 2015<\/b> \u2014 Jamaican human rights activist Maurice Tomlinson has filed a claim in the Supreme Court of Judicature, challenging the constitutionality of Jamaica\u2019s laws criminalizing consensual sex between men. The legal challenge \u2014 which will be announced at a press conference tomorrow in Kingston, Jamaica \u2014 is being supported by the Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network and AIDS-Free World. In its arguments, the legal challenge outlines the ways in which the law violates the constitutional rights of Jamaicans.<\/p>\n<p>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"..\/constitutional-challenge-to-jamaicas-anti-sodomy-law-qa\/\">Constitutional challenge to\u00a0Jamaica\u2019s anti-sodomy law:\u00a0Questions &amp; Answers<\/a><br \/>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Jamaican Gay Activist Launches Constitutional Challenge\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/13357\/?tmstv=1776300233\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, December 9, 2015 \u2014 Jamaican human rights activist Maurice Tomlinson has filed a claim in the Supreme Court of Judicature, challenging the constitutionality of Jamaica\u2019s laws criminalizing consensual sex between men. The legal challenge \u2014 which will be announced at a press conference tomorrow in Kingston, Jamaica \u2014 is being supported by the Canadian &#8230; <a title=\"Jamaican Gay Activist Launches Constitutional Challenge\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/jamaican-gay-activist-launches-constitutional-challenge\/\" aria-label=\"More on Jamaican Gay Activist Launches Constitutional Challenge\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[153,160],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-11955","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-lgbtq-rights","publication_topics-the-caribbean","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/11955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/11955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22361,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/11955\/revisions\/22361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=11955"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=11955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}