Case against gay couple stalls
Friends Kim Mukisa and Jackson Mukasa were arrested in early January, just weeks before Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni passed a law further criminalising homosexuality, after being accused of living 'as husband and wife'.
A report on the News24 site notes that they were charged with engaging in s ex against the order of nature, and their trial began in May. The anti-gay law signed by Museveni in February has since been revoked on a technicality, but they have been charged under a 1950s penal code which remains in force and prescribes jail for those found guilty of homos exual acts, the report states. There have been no convictions under the old code, according to the Uganda-based Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum. Yet, the case of these two men drags on in court and it has been adjourned again to 22 October. The report notes that Mukasa said he thinks the prosecution is not 'bothered' with the case. 'There is no police file, there is no witness, and every time we come to court they tell us the state attorney is not around,' he is quoted in the report as saying. Full report on the News24 site