{"id":2117,"date":"2010-05-27T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2024-09-16T11:34:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T11:34:56","slug":"auntie-tiwonge-and-steven-monjeza-sentenced-then-pardoned-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/auntie-tiwonge-and-steven-monjeza-sentenced-then-pardoned-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2010 \u2014 Auntie Tiwonge and Steven Monjeza Sentenced, Then Pardoned, Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In May 2010, Auntie Tiwonge and Steven Monjeza were sentenced to 14 years of hard labour after being arrested on charges of gross indecency for publicly celebrating their relationship the previous year.\u00a0 However, Malawian President Mutharika <a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2010-05-29-malawi-leader-meets-ban-kimoon-pardons-gay-couple\/\">reversed this decision<\/a> after a meeting with UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, and gave the couple a full pardon. Homosexuality remains a criminal offence in Malawi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"313\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Mongeza.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Mongeza.png 313w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Mongeza-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mongeza and Auntie Tiwonge. From: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/may\/30\/malwi-gay-couple-freed-villages\">The Guardian<\/a><\/em>. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2010, Auntie Tiwonge and Steven Monjeza were sentenced to 14 years of hard labour after being arrested on charges of gross indecency for publicly celebrating their relationship the previous year.\u00a0 However, Malawian President Mutharika reversed this decision after a meeting with UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, and gave the couple a full pardon. Homosexuality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,39,41,32],"tags":[169,85,170],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-community","category-legislation","category-trans","tag-auntie-tiwonge","tag-malawi","tag-steven-monjeza"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3321,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/3321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}