{"id":15,"area":"Africa","region_name":"Guinea","iso_2":"GN","region_sub":null,"legal_code_title":"Penal Code from 2016","legal_code_title_citation_1":"Text of the law available at: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl-nat.nsf/xsp/.ibmmodres/domino/OpenAttachment/applic/ihl/ihl-nat.nsf/D5E8B7179C215EA7C12580E40039F562/TEXT/Guinea%20-%20Law%20on%20the%20Criminal%20Code,%202016%20%5BFra%5D.pdf","legal_code_title_citation_2":null,"legal_code_body":"Article 274 - “Any indecent act or act against nature committed with an individual of the same sex or an animal will be punished with 6 months to 3 years of imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 to 1,000,000 Guinean francs or with either of those penalties.”\n\nArticle 275 - “Constitutes a public outrage of modesty any intentional act committed in public and capable of offending the modesty or morality of those who involuntarily witness it.” \n\nArticle 276 - “Any person who commits a public outrage of modesty will be punished with 3 months to 2 years of imprisonment and a fine of 500.000 to 1.000.000 Guinean francs or with either of those penalties. If the act was committed by a group of individuals, the double of the penalties described above must be imposed.”","legal_code_body_citation_1":"214 Original text: ”Article 325: - Tout acte impudique ou contre nature commis avec un individu de son sexe sera puni d’un emprisonnement de 6 mois à 3 ans et d’une amende de 100.000 à 1.000.000 de Francs guinéens. Si l’acte a été commis avec un mineur de moins de 21 ans, le maximum de la peine sera toujours prononcée.”","legal_code_body_citation_2":null,"legal_code_body_citation_3":null,"legal_code_body_citation_4":null,"legal_code_ilga_comments":"The atmosphere within which nascent LGBT organising has been happening in the recent period is both volatile and hostile. Amnesty’s 2015/2016 report on Guinea notes: “[a]t least three people were arrested because of their perceived sexual orientation. Two men were arrested on 22 April in Conakry. In May, the Tribunal of Mafanco sentenced them to three months’ imprisonment”.\n\nIn its 2nd cycle UPR in January 2015, Guinea ‘noted’ two recommendations from Italy and Argentina to remove discriminatory measures based on SOGI, including criminalization. The State’s delegation appeared not to have made any comment regarding SOGI.","legal_code_ilga_comments_citation_1":null,"legal_code_ilga_comments_citation_2":null,"legal_code_ilga_comments_citation_3":null,"legal_code_ilga_comments_citation_4":null,"legal_code_ilga_comments_citation_5":null,"legal_code_ilga_comments_citation_6":null,"legal_code_scruff_comments":null,"prison_term_min_length":0.5,"prison_term_max_length":4,"prison_term_notes":null,"prison_term_not_specified":null,"prison_term_years":true,"prison_term_life":null,"prison_term_mandatory":true,"fine_min_amount":null,"fine_max_amount":1000000,"fine_currency":"Guinean francs","fine_notes":null,"fine_not_specified":null,"fine_amount":true,"fine_mandatory":true,"penalty_death":false,"penalty_death_notes":null,"penalty_corporal_punishment":null,"penalty_corporal_punishment_notes":null,"penalty_hard_labor":null,"penalty_hard_labor_notes":null,"penalty_banishment":null,"legal_code_explicitly_references_same_sex_acts":true,"legal_code_explicitly_references_acts_against_nature":null,"legal_code_differentiates_anal_sex_from_other_acts":null,"legal_code_indicates_hiv_as_aggravating_factor":null,"legal_code_indicates_age_of_consent_homosexual_acts_over_18":true,"existing_laws_used_to_target_gays_but_not_anti_gay":null,"islamic_sharia_law":null,"islamic_sharia_law_notes":null,"laws_subregional_variance_or_contradiction":null,"laws_subregional_variance_or_contradiction_notes":null,"laws_not_specifically_homophobic":null,"laws_status_unclear":null,"laws_status_unclear_notes":null,"persecution_non_state_agents":null,"criminalization_under_consideration":null,"recently_decriminalized":null,"propaganda_law_under_consideration":null,"propaganda_law_title":null,"propaganda_law_title_citation_1":null,"propaganda_law_body":null,"propaganda_law_body_citation_1":null,"propaganda_law_ilga_comments":null,"legal_developments_2023_2024_summary":null,"legal_developments_2023_2024_citations":"ILGA World, Laws On Us: A Global Overview of Legal Progress and Backtracking on SOGIESC, 1st Ed. (Geneva, May 2024) (country not referenced in Ch.1/2 narrative).","status_change_type":"Unchanged (not mentioned in 2024 report)"}