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Uganda's constitutional court on Wednesday refused to annul or suspend an anti-LGBTQ law that includes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts, but found some of its provisions inconsistent ...
The Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 is an act of the Parliament of Uganda that restricts freedom of speech on LGBT topics and introduces harsher penalties for certain types of homosexual acts. On 21 March 2023, the bill was read a third time, and was then sent to President Yoweri Museveni for assent. [ 1 ]
KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda's Constitutional Court on Monday began hearing a challenge to an anti-LGBT law that carries the death penalty for certain same-sex acts and 20 years in prison for ...
This Act came into force in 2023, [A] [2] making Uganda the only Christian-majority country to punish some types of consensual same-sex acts with the death penalty. [8] A similar law had been passed in 2013, but was in 2014 struck down as unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Uganda on legal technicalities. [9]
The Court of Appeal of Uganda is located at Plot 2, The Square, Nakasero, in the Central Division of Kampala, the capital and largest city in Uganda. [1] The geographical coordinates of the offices of the Uganda Court of Appeal are: 0°18'57.0"N, 32°34'45.0"E (Latitude: Longitude:0.315833; Longitude:32.579167).
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The Ugandan judiciary operates as an independent branch of government and consists of magistrate's courts, high courts, courts of appeal (which organizes itself as the Constitutional Court of Uganda when hearing constitutional issues), and the Supreme Court. Judges for the High Court are appointed by the president; Judges for the Court of ...
The Supreme Court of Uganda is the highest judicial organ in Uganda. It derives its powers from Article 130 of the 1995 Constitution . It is primarily an appellate court with original jurisdiction in only one type of case: a presidential election petition.