stabroeknews.com – By Stabroek staff
The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) and four men, who were fined last year on a charge of wearing female attire, have filed a motion in the High Court against that section of the law stating that it contravenes their fundamental rights.
Quincy McEwan, Seon Clarke, Joseph Fraser and Seyon Persaud – the four who were fined last year – and SASOD filed for redress seeking, among other things, to have Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Act Chapter 8:02, Section 153(1)(xlvii) under which the men were charged invalidated as irrational, discriminatory, undemocratic, contrary to the rule of law and unconstitutional.