New law targets indecency and pornography
Publish date: 25 February 2014
Issue Number: 566
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: Uganda
President Yoweri Museveni has signed a law that criminalises indecency and the promotion of p ornography.
New Vision reports that women have been forbidden to wear clothes like miniskirts and cleavage-revealing blouses 'that excite s exual cravings in public', unless it is during sports or cultural events. The new law has repealed and replaced Section 166 of the Penal Code Act, widening the legal interpretation of p ornography and prohibiting it comprehensively, according to the report. It says that in terms of the law, p ornography means 'any representation through publication, exhibition, cinematography, indecent show, information technology or by whatever means, of a person engaged in real or stimulated ex plicit s exual activities or any representation of the s exual parts of a person for primary s exual excitement'. Full New Vision report