Tag: Uganda
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Ugandan gay-rights activist seeks US asylum to escape harsh new law at home
Fearing prison or even death, an openly gay activist from Uganda is seeking asylum in the United States since his home country toughened criminal punishment against gays.
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Uganda raid AIDS project
Police in Uganda have accused a US-funded AIDS project that they raided last week of paying young men to become homosexuals.
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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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Historic EU-Africa Summit overshadowed by anti-LGBT laws
The fourth EU-Africa Summit is taking place in Brussels since yesterday, and although not officially on the agenda, extremely harsh new anti-LGBT laws will be on leaders’ minds.
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Police boss denied US visa over anti-homosexuality law
The enactment of the anti-homosexuality law, which is widely opposed by Western countries, has claimed its first scalp in Kampala Metropolitan Police Commander Andrew Felix Kaweesi.
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Leading Kenyan MP says homosexuality ‘as serious as terrorism’
Homosexuality in Kenya is as bad a problem as terrorism, the ruling party’s parliamentary leader said on Wednesday, but argued against stepping up legal sanctions on the grounds that existing laws were tough enough.