2 Nov 2010

Ugandan paper ordered to stop printing list of gay people

A Ugandan court has ordered a newspaper that called for homosexual people to be hanged to stop publishing the names and photographs of people it said were gay.

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The order was granted a day after Rolling Stone, a new weekly tabloid, printed pictures of about 20 men described as "generals" of the gay community in Uganda. The headline was Men of Shame Part II, and followed the publication of a list of 100 allegedly gay people last month.

Several of the people in the original list reported facing harassment, including a woman who was forced to flee her home after neighbours pelted it with stones. Anti-gay sentiment in Uganda has been fuelled by the campaign by politicians and evangelical preachers to pass a law that would see gay people face life imprisonment or even the death penalty.

Full article on The Guardian