By RFIPosted on 15-11-2019Modified on 15-11-2019 at 19:45
In Uganda, 9 out of 67 people indicted on Tuesday after being arrested Sunday in a LGBT community bar were released on bail on Friday afternoon. They will be appearing on December 6, the remaining detainees will be presented to a judge on November 18. Homosexuality is harshly repressed in the country.
Four people from the homosexual community have been killed in recent months, according to several human rights organizations. These murders were committed in villages, but according to Jacqueline Kasha of the Ugandan organization Freedom and Roam Uganda (Farug), nothing has been done to find the culprits.
" The authorities are not enough to arrest the perpetrators and there is a lot of impunity. And the public knows that it can act because it is protected by the state. "
For this LGBT activist engaged in the fight for the rights of homosexuals , homophobic acts would have increased significantly in recent weeks.
" We have seen an escalation of violence and attacks against the LGBT community. The state and the authorities incite to this violence, the ministers go on the television, on the radio, in the newspapers to stir hatred. "
In early October, Simon Lokodo, the Ugandan Minister of Ethics, proposed to punish homosexuality for the death penalty. A few days later, 16 homosexuals were arrested and forced to undergo anal tests. A lesbian was assaulted a few days later by a doctor.
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