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Uganda charges 16 LGBT+ activists for gay sex
Source: Reuters
Uganda charges 16 LGBT+ activists for gay sex
Gay sex carries a possible life sentence in Uganda, one of the most difficult countries in Africa to be a sexual minority with increasingly violent confrontation over sexual freedom
by Nita Bhalla | @nitabhalla | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:50 GMT
NAIROBI, Oct 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Uganda said on Thursday it had charged 16 LGBT+ activists with the crime of gay sex - punishable by life in jail - in what campaigners called an escalating campaign against sexual minorities in the east African nation.
The 16 men, believed to be aged from 22 to 35, were taken into custody late on Monday at the office of a sexual health charity where they all worked and lived, fellow activists said.
Police said they had found lubricants, condoms and anti-retroviral drugs at the charity, and had conducted anal examinations on all 16 men.
"Based on the medical examination report, it was established that the suspects were involved in sexual acts punishable under the penal code," Kampala Police spokesman Patrick Onyango told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Gay sex carries a possible life sentence in Uganda, one of the most difficult countries in Africa to be a sexual minority with increasingly violent confrontation over sexual freedom
by Nita Bhalla | @nitabhalla | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:50 GMT
NAIROBI, Oct 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Uganda said on Thursday it had charged 16 LGBT+ activists with the crime of gay sex - punishable by life in jail - in what campaigners called an escalating campaign against sexual minorities in the east African nation.
The 16 men, believed to be aged from 22 to 35, were taken into custody late on Monday at the office of a sexual health charity where they all worked and lived, fellow activists said.
Police said they had found lubricants, condoms and anti-retroviral drugs at the charity, and had conducted anal examinations on all 16 men.
"Based on the medical examination report, it was established that the suspects were involved in sexual acts punishable under the penal code," Kampala Police spokesman Patrick Onyango told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Read more: https://news.trust.org/item/20191024111824-hynsm/