Uganda’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday upheld an anti-gay law that has caused widespread outrage in much of the rest of the world for its severity.
“We decline to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 in its entirety, neither will we grant a permanent injunction against its enforcement,” Justice Richard Buteera, Uganda’s deputy chief justice and head of the court, said in the landmark ruling.
The law imposes penalties of up to life in prison for consensual same-sex relations and contains provisions that make “aggravated homosexuality” an offense punishable by death.
The petition to have the law overturned was brought by two law professors from Makerere University in Kampala, legislators from the ruling party and human rights activists
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