Uganda media can't publish identities of homosexuals, high court says

Source: CNN

Kampala, Uganda (CNN) -- The Ugandan high court has banned all media outlets in the country from publishing lists identifying people they claim are gay after advocacy groups filed a lawsuit.

The order came three months after Rolling Stone -- a local tabloid which has no relation to the iconic U.S. music magazine -- published a list of people it said were gay, urging readers to report them to police.

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It's especially sad given the intent of the tabloid.

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Source: AP

Uganda's High Court has ruled that the media should not publish the names and photos of gay Ugandans following a vitriolic campaign in the east African country which urged citizens to hang those featured.

Justice Kibuuka Musoke on Monday ordered Uganda's Rolling Stone magazine to pay $650 in damages and court costs for each of the three activists who sued the magazine. Musoke also ordered a permanent injunction preventing the magazine from publishing any further names of men or women accused of being gay.

The ruling follows years of persecution of gay Ugandans. Many Ugandans accuse gay men and women of recruiting children to a gay lifestyle, a charge activists reject as preposterous. The government was even considering a bill last year to make homosexuality punishable by death and imprison those who did not report gay friends or family members, a proposal that was quietly shelved after international outrage.

Homosexuality is already illegal in Uganda but recently gay rights groups have begun protesting their treatment.



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