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Nobel peace prize winner defends law criminalising homosexuality in Liberia

Liberia’s president and Tony Blair discuss anti-gay law. Link to this video

The Nobel peace prize winner and president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has defended a law that criminalises homosexual acts, saying: „We like ourselves just the way we are.“

In a joint interview with Tony Blair, who was left looking visibly uncomfortable by her remarks, Sirleaf told the Guardian: „We’ve got certain traditional values in our society that we would like to preserve.“

Liberian legislation classes „voluntary sodomy“ as a misdemeanour punishable by up to one year in prison, but two new bills have been proposed that would target homosexuality with much tougher sentences.

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