Tag: Kampala
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Ugandan Authorities Amp Up Persecution of LGBTIQ People
LGBTIQ activists in Uganda confirm that on Sunday, November 10th, an LGBTIQ-friendly bar in Kampala was raided and 125 people arrested and charged with drug possession, indicating an intentional and growing persecution of LGBTIQ people in the country.
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Homophobic Ugandan Police raid shuts down Uganda’s only gay film festival
Homosexuality is illegal in the socially conservative East African country and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is common
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Ugandan presidential candidate Abed Bwanika : Vote for me and I will cure all gays
People’s Development Party (PDP) president Abed Bwanika has promised victory in 2016, vowing to tap into six million people who did not turn up to cast their vote in 2011.
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Ugandans mark Gay Pride, but stigma tempers joy
Several dozen Ugandans marked Gay Pride on Saturday, cheering that such a parade could go ahead in a country that only last year tried to impose long jail terms for gay sex.
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Ugandan police raid US project that assisted gay
Ugandan police raided the offices of a United States-funded project known to offer AIDS services to homosexuals, a government spokesman said Friday, in what appeared to be the first public action by police to enforce a new law that strengthened criminal penalties against gay sex.
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Ex-Uganda national team coach Mubiru arrested for gay sex
Former Uganda national team coach Chris Mubiru has been arrested in Kampala for allegedly having anal sex with a young player and he is expected to be put before trial for sodomy.