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Title: Concern for missing Ugandan gay rights activist
Post by: Mnemosyne on July 28, 2008, 09:28:49 AM
Post by: Mnemosyne on July 28, 2008, 09:28:49 AM
Concern for missing Ugandan gay rights activist
By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk • July 28, 2008 - 12:18
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8503.html (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8503.html)
Section 143 punishes acts of "gross indecency" with up to five years in prison, while a sodomy conviction carries a penalty of 14 years to life imprisonment.
A poll in August 2007 found that 95% of Ugandans want homosexual acts to remain illegal.
Government officials have regularly threatened and harassed lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Ugandans.
In 2005 Uganda became the first country in the world to introduce laws banning same-sex marriage.
By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk • July 28, 2008 - 12:18
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8503.html (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8503.html)
Section 143 punishes acts of "gross indecency" with up to five years in prison, while a sodomy conviction carries a penalty of 14 years to life imprisonment.
A poll in August 2007 found that 95% of Ugandans want homosexual acts to remain illegal.
Government officials have regularly threatened and harassed lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Ugandans.
In 2005 Uganda became the first country in the world to introduce laws banning same-sex marriage.