Tag: Uganda
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Uganda: Brutal Killing of Gay Activist
Amid Attacks, Officials Threaten Death Penalty for LGBTQ People.
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Homophobic Uganda Plans to Re-introduce «Anti-Homosexuality Act»
In an interview with Thomson Reuters today the Ethics and Integrity Minister of Uganda, Simon Lokodo, has announced plans to introduce to parliament a bill imposing the death penalty for same-sex relations and «promotion and recruitment» of homosexuality in order to curb a rise in «unnatural sex». Local activists confirm that it is to be tabled on October 28, 2019.
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Ugandan music festival back on after ethics minister tried to cancel it due to «homosexuality»
A Ugandan music festival was reinstated on Wednesday following a public outcry after the country’s ethics minister banned it as an orgy of homosexuality, nudity and drugs akin to «devil worship».
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Homophobic Uganda bans music, arts festival due to «homosexuality»
Uganda’s Minister for Ethics and Integrity, Simon Lokodo, has banned a popular and highly publicised international music and arts festival schedule for the weekend.
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Ugandan LGBTQ asylum seeker, Sweden wants to deport : They are gonna kill me
Former Dalkurd player Patrick Mulyanti, 20, is openly gay. Now he will be deported by Sweden to Uganda where he is wanted because of his sexual orientation and where a former boyfriend murdered.
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UN fails Ugandan LGBTI refugees abused in Kenya
“Ugandan LGBTIs have fled attempts to arrest and kill them. They have sought safety in Kenya but instead suffer arrest, beatings, hunger, insanitary conditions and sexual exploitation.