Local media outlets reported anti-LGBTQ+ demonstrations in areas including Mombasa and Eldoret, last Friday.
At a protest led by religious leaders in Mombasa, demonstrators displayed placards bearing statements such as “Even Satan wasn’t gay” and “Tears of a Kenyan child.”
Speakers at the event, including a representative from an organisation called Anti-LGBTQ+ Kenya, criticised foreign governments for what they described as an attempt to impose the “LGBTQ+ agenda” on Africans.
In a disturbing video posted on social media, MP Mohamed Ali was seen addressing the crowds and allegedly inciting violence against the LGBTQ+ community.
According to a translation, it’s claimed he cited both the Bible and the Quran to call for the killing of LGBTQ+ individuals. He also suggested that the American government should offer to take in Kenya’s LGBTQ+ population if it was so interested in them.
The court order issued on Monday restrains Ali and other anti-LGBTQ+ activists from “calling on or inciting members of the public to carry out extra-judicial killing, lynching, punishing, stoning, forcible conversion or any other means of harming LGBTQ+ identifying persons and their homes, expulsion from Kenya or any part of Kenya of LGBTQ+ identifying persons or closure of organisations serving LGBTQ+ identifying persions serving LGBTQ+ identifying persons”