Malawi: Gay partner missing after pardon

  1. Posted on Monday 31 May 2010 - 15:34
    Mtheto Lungu
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    Mtheto Lungu, AfricaNews reporter in Lilongwe, Malawi
    One of the pardoned gay partners in Malawi, Stoneck aka 'Aunt Tiwo' Tiwonge Chimbalanga is reportedly missing. His uncle, village headman Chimbalanga speaking from his village in Thyolo District confirmed the matters. He said Aunt Tiwo arrived in the village at 9pm at night after he and his colleague, Steven monjeza, received a presidential pardon.
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    A visit to his former working place also yielded no results.

    President Bingu wa Mutharika pardoned the two on 'humanitarian grounds; and said homosexuality is still against the laws of Malawi.

    Malawi Prisons Service top boss, Macdonald Chaona said he personally instructed his department to deliver the two at their respective homes at 6pm on Saturday.

    "It is normal procedure to drop released inmates at their respective homes from where they were arrested," he said.

    Meanwhile Monjeza is safely back trying to re-launch his tinsmith business in the commercial city of Blantyre.

    The first open gay couple was released shortly after visit of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to Malawi. During his two-day visit, he spoke with Mutharika at length and also appealed to Parliamentarians at the newly launched state of the art parliament building to revisit 'archaic laws'.

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