Lawyers and human rights activists in Tunisia have lodged an appeal to overturn a one-year prison sentence against two men for homosexuality.
Consensual sex between two people of the same sex – whether men or women – remains punishable in Tunisia by up to three years in jail under a law that dates back more than 100 years.
The two men have taken their case to the country’s top court after a lower court rejected their first appeal last year.
Their lawyer says that if their case is successful, it could create a legal precedent that would help do away with Article 230 in the criminal code, which outlaws homosexual acts.
