Cases

HIV criminalisation cases

The latest cases curated for the HIV Justice Network from global news reports.

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Singapore: 39-year-old sentenced to 3 months in jail for donating blood

Latest update 22 March 2024
Singapore Blood donation Migrants

Qatar: Mexican man arrested in Qatar for being gay and living with HIV provisionally released from prison

Latest update 21 March 2024
Mexico Qatar Gay men Migrants

[Update]Ireland: Conviction for alleged HIV transmission overturned by Supreme Court

Latest update 15 December 2023
Ireland Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

[Update]Canada: Man convicted in 2009 for alleged HIV transmission refused parole

Latest update 15 December 2023
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Gay men Migrants

Estonia: Ukrainian refugee sentenced to 8 months in jail for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 8 November 2023
Estonia Alleged sexual exposure Migrants Women

[Update] Australia: Transgender sex worker from New Zealand jailed for alleged HIV transmission fights deportation

Latest update 18 April 2023
Western Australia Australia Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Migrants Sex workers Trans* people

Kazakhstan: Man sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in jail for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 2 December 2022
Kazakhstan Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

Senegal: Man living with HIV faces up to five years in prison for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 28 October 2022
Senegal Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Migrants

[Update]Canada: Appeals court overturns man’s initial conviction, citing his viral load suppression

Latest update 20 October 2022
Ontario Canada Risk Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Migrants

Netherlands: Lawyer representing three women in alleged HIV transmission case considered “legally impossible” by Public Prosecution Service resorts to trial by media

Latest update 4 April 2022
Netherlands Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

[Update]France: Man sentenced to 6 years on appeal for alleged deliberate HIV transmission

Latest update 25 February 2022
France Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

Switzerland: 40-year-old man charged with alleged HIV transmission acquitted following complainant’s testimony

Latest update 8 November 2021
Switzerland Alleged sexual transmission Migrants

Italy: 39-year-old man arrested and facing charges for having unprotected sex

Latest update 15 November 2019
Italy Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Migrants

US: Man charged with HIV exposure in Tennessee held in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Latest update 31 October 2019
Tennessee USA Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Migrants

Singapore: Court sentences Malaysian man to 42 months in jail for alleged HIV transmission and non-disclosure

Latest update 6 September 2019
Singapore Alleged sexual transmission Gay men Migrants

Sweden: 45-year-old man sentenced to one year in jail for not disclosing his status

Latest update 20 August 2019
Sweden Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Migrants

Cambodia: Police arrests immigrant for overstaying his visa and investigates alleged HIV transmission complaint

Latest update 31 December 2018
Cambodia Alleged sexual exposure Migrants

UK: 23-year-old man of Ghanaian background found guilty of reckless grievous bodily harm, sentenced to five years for alleged HIV transmission to two young women

Latest update 24 September 2018

     

England United Kingdom Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants Youth

France: Nigerian man sentenced to 4 years for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 22 May 2018

     

France Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

[Update]France: Temporary release pending appeal refused for 42-year-old man sentenced to 7 years for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 8 March 2018
France Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

France: 52 year-old man sentenced to 5 years in jail for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 1 March 2018
France Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

Norway: Trans sex worker with HIV deported from Norway after police considered opening criminal proceedings for HIV exposure

Latest update 13 December 2017
Norway Alleged sexual exposure Migrants Sex workers Trans* people

[Update] Czech Republic: Sentence reduced from 11.5 years to 9 years for Czech national deported from Thailand for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 7 December 2017
Czech Republic/Czechia Thailand Alleged sexual transmission Migrants

Italy: 24-year-old man arrested in Florence and charged with grievous bodily harm for alleged HIV exposure

Latest update 25 November 2017
Italy Alleged sexual exposure Gay men Migrants Youth

[update]France: 54-year-old man sentenced to 6 years in jail for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 18 October 2017
France Heterosexual men Migrants

[Update]Switzerland: Man acquitted under new HIV law, because malicious intent could not be proven, is back on trial.

Latest update 6 October 2017
Switzerland Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

[Update] Jamaica: Jamaican man extradited back to Canada to face charges of HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 23 June 2017
Canada Jamaica Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Migrants

Israel: 24 year old migrant from Guinea arrested by Israeli police for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 20 June 2017

   

Israel Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants Youth

France: African migrant arrested in Chartres for alleged HIV transmission to a number of women

Latest update 29 March 2017

 

France Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

[Update]Canada: Man accused of alleged HIV transmission and non-disclosure in Quebec sentenced to 7 years in jail

Latest update 15 March 2017

     

Quebec Canada Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

Federal Republic of Somalia: Woman living with HIV arrested for alleged HIV transmission to police officer

Latest update 19 January 2017
Somalia Alleged sexual transmission Migrants Women

France: South African man sentenced to 4 years in prison for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 11 January 2017
France Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

Turkey: Azerbaijani female sex worker arrested in Van province, accused of exposing 200 male clients to HIV

Latest update 6 January 2017
Turkey Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Migrants Sex workers Women

[Update] Australia: Migrant living with HIV deported to Zimbabwe in case that went all the way to the High Court

Latest update 12 December 2016
Queensland Australia Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

[Update]France: Man living with HIV sentenced in his absence to 12 years in jail for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 9 December 2016
France Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

US: Venezuelan man living with HIV in Oregon is kept in detention center and faces deportation for "minor offense"

Latest update 28 November 2016
Oregon USA Migrants Other

Nigeria: Foreign national living with HIV arrested in Lagos for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 15 October 2016
Nigeria Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

Iceland: Case dropped against HIV-positive migrant accused of HIV transmission due to lack of evidence

Latest update 16 September 2016
Iceland Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

[Update]Canada: Court upholds sexual assault conviction of Calgary man for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 1 July 2016
Alberta Canada Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

Kuwait: 11 men arrested for suspected homosexual activities subjected to mandatory HIV testing

Latest update 30 May 2016
Kuwait Gay men Migrants

Switzerland: HIV positive man charged with “simple bodily harm by negligence” for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 5 May 2016

       

Switzerland Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

[Update]UAE: Abu Dhabi court sentences young woman, 19, to three years in prison for potential HIV exposure

Latest update 4 April 2016

     

United Arab Emirates Alleged sexual exposure Migrants Women Youth

France: Court of Appeal upholds conviction of Swiss National for alleged HIV transmission but reduces his sentence to 5 years

Latest update 27 March 2016
France Alleged sexual transmission Gay men Migrants

[Update]UK: CPS drops reckless HIV transmission prosecution due to lack of phylogenetic report

Latest update 15 September 2015
England United Kingdom Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

[Update] Iceland: Nigerian ‘asylum seeker’ accused of infecting women with HIV released, but investigation continues

Latest update 20 August 2015
Iceland Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

UK: Zambian migrant, 28, pleads guilty to two counts of ‘reckless’ HIV transmission, sentenced to seven years

Latest update 15 June 2015
Wales United Kingdom Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

Canada: B.C. Supreme Court jury convicts Zimbabwean migrant of aggravated sexual assault for HIV non-disclosure

Latest update 7 February 2014
British Columbia Canada Alleged sexual exposure Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

Saudi Arabia: Syrian women beggars who had sex with two young Saudi men accused of being Assad’s agents after the men are diagnosed with HIV

Latest update 24 January 2014
Saudi Arabia Media/Public Opinion Alleged sexual transmission Migrants Sex workers Women

Australia: Sydney court sentences Zimbabwean migrant, 44, to a minimum of three years in prison for HIV transmission without disclosure

Latest update 15 November 2013
New South Wales Australia Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

UK: Judge directs jury in Leicester reckless HIV transmission trial to find Zimbabwe migrant, 32, not guilty of one of two charges due to lack of evidence, but he is found guilty on other charge, sentenced to 4 1/2 years

Latest update 12 September 2013

     

England United Kingdom Scientific tests Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

US: Zimbabwe migrant pleads guilty to ‘knowingly’ transmitting HIV to four women, receives 120 years in Texas prison

Latest update 29 August 2013
Texas USA Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

US: Gay man with HIV previously charged with soliciting for oral sex will not be deported to Mexico

Latest update 6 June 2013
USA Gay men Migrants Sex workers

Canada: Musician ordered deported to Zimbabwe because he failed to disclose HIV status to sex partners

Latest update 3 April 2013
British Columbia Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Migrants

Canada: Honduras refugee who worked as a prostitute without telling his clients he had HIV can stay in Canada: judge

Latest update 20 March 2013
Ontario Canada Gay men Migrants Sex workers

[Update]Canada: More on the Trinidadian migrant case

Latest update 25 November 2012
Ontario Canada Alleged sexual exposure Heterosexual men Migrants

Austria: HIV denialist woman sentenced in Graz to 14 months in prison for transmitting HIV to her baby

Latest update 5 March 2012
Austria Breastfeeding Vertical transmission Migrants Women

Spain: Man sentenced to 9 years for alleged HIV transmission

Latest update 8 September 2011
Spain Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants

Poland: 34 year-old migrant charged with alleged HIV transmission to 11 women

Latest update 19 July 2008
Poland Alleged sexual transmission Heterosexual men Migrants