{"id":11422,"date":"2023-08-30T04:56:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=11422"},"modified":"2023-08-30T04:56:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:56:27","slug":"20-year-old-charged-with-aggravated-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=11422","title":{"rendered":"20-Year-Old Charged With &#8216;Aggravated Homosexuality&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UGANDA: 20-Year-Old Charged With &#8216;Aggravated Homosexuality&#8217;, Faces Death Penalty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first time in Uganda, a 20-year-old man was charged with &#8220;aggravated homosexuality&#8221;, a crime punishable by death under the country&#8217;s implemented anti-gay law.Uganda passed one of the most severe anti-LGBTI+ laws in the world in May 2023, defying criticism from Western governments and human rights organizations.The punishment for having same-sex relations is life in jail. The death sentence may be imposed in situations deemed &#8220;aggravated&#8221;, such as those involving repeated offences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230830-WA0000-1-1024x592.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230830-WA0000-1-1024x592.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230830-WA0000-1-980x567.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230830-WA0000-1-480x278.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UGANDA: 20-Year-Old Charged With &#8216;Aggravated Homosexuality&#8217;, Faces Death Penalty For the first time in Uganda, a 20-year-old man was charged with &#8220;aggravated homosexuality&#8221;, a crime punishable by death under the country&#8217;s implemented anti-gay law.Uganda passed one of the most severe anti-LGBTI+ laws in the world in May 2023, defying criticism from Western governments and human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG-20230830-WA0000.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11425,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions\/11425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}