🇺🇬 Top Ugandan court upholds anti-LGBT law

Uganda's Constitutional Court has upheld the country's anti-homosexuality law, which imposes life imprisonment and the death penalty on those involved in certain same-sex acts.

But the court did weaken the legislation, saying that parts of it violated constitutional rights.

Sections that criminalise behaviour such as allowing gay sex to happen at one’s property, failing to report acts of homosexuality and giving someone a terminal illness through gay sex are to be struck.

"We decline to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 in its entirety, neither will we grant a permanent injunction against its enforcement," lead judge Richard Buteera said.

The petitioners say they will appeal against the ruling.

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