The High Court in Kampala has rejected an appeal from Rosemary Namubiru, who was convicted in May 2014 for negligently exposing a child to HIV during a needlestick injury. However, Justice Rugadya Atwooki found that her original three year sentence was excessive and ordered her released after serving ten months.
The U.S. State Department says it is both “dismayed” and “deeply concerned” by Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s signing of a brutal new antigay law in his country.
With language suspiciously similar to a law that was in force in Uganda until it was overturned by a constitutional court in August on a technicality, Gambia’s new law calls for life sentences for acts of “aggravated homosexuality.” “We are dismayed by President Jammeh’s decision to sign into law legislation that further restricts the rights of LGBT individuals and are deeply concerned about the reported arrests and detention of suspected LGBT individuals in The Gambia,” Jeff Rathke, the State Department’s director of press relations, said in the statement.
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Drafters of a revised anti-gay law want parliament to pass it in time to be a “Christmas gift” for Ugandans, a lawmaker said on Friday, after a controversial earlier version was quashed because of legal technicalities. Legislation passed by parliament almost a year ago, which would have punished gay sex with long prison terms, provoked a storm of international protest and led some donor countries to withhold aid.
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