Jamaica’s anti-buggery laws will face their biggest legal challenge to date. The laws, which ban gay sex, are still on the books from the island nation’s past as a British colony. Now, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said it will review and challenge the laws

The independent organization has found to LGBT Jamaicans who will act as petitioners in the case. The first is Gareth Henry and the second is lesbian Simone Edwards who both have fled the country due to the current hostile laws.

“If proved, the alleged facts relating to threats to life, personal integrity, interference with private and family life, obstacles to the right of residence and movement, unequal treatment, lack of access to justice and judicial protection, and interference in access to health care, could establish possible violations of (…) the American Convention [on Human Rights],”the report read.

The case has been in the works for nearly six years and they will use evidence compiled to make a case that the currently laws in Jamaica violate rights under the American Convention on Human Rights, which Jamaica ratified.