Jackson Mukasa and Kim Mukisa, the two Ugandans facing trial for homosexuality, have been granted bail.
Meanwhile, Yoweri Museveni, the president who assented the anti-gay law, received a rude awakening in London today.
Protests from Ugandan’s and supporters of the equal rights movement interrupted a speech given by Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni at the hotel where he is staying while visiting London.
Noise from drums, vuvuzelas and chants could be heard from outside the St James’ Court Hotel on Wednesday, in a protest organised by the African LGBTI Out and Proud Diamond Group. President Museveni is in the UK for a forum promoting business between Uganda and the UK – and was disrupted when he attempted to give a speech to Ugandan citizens living in the UK with businesses.
LGBT Ugandans and allies staged a protest outside a London hotel where President Yoweri Museveni was speaking, while the first LGBT people to face formal charges for gay sex were granted bail.
Two LGBT Ugandans who were scheduled to face formal charges of "carnal knowledge against the order of nature" were granted bail Wednesday, the day their trial was to take place, for the first time since they were arrested in January...
There are some excellent photos of the protest on that second article.
Meanwhile, Huffington Post questions why on earth Museveni was invited to speak in the UK in the first place?
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been in London this week as the honoured guest of the Commonwealth Business Council. Among those welcoming him to the grand surroundings of Lancaster House just down the road from the House of Commons and Buckingham Palace was the UK's Minister for Africa. Yet just 10 weeks ago President Museveni made it punishable by life imprisonment to be a lesbian or gay man in his country. Anybody daring even to speak up for the rights of LGBT citizens can now go to jail for seven years.
Probably for the same reason the Commonwealth promoted Rebecca Kadaga to head of women parliamentarians?
Ignorance, arrogance, and a complete disregard for the rights of LGBT people worldwide.
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