Uganda Anti-gay Regulation & Guantanamo: Wednesday eighth January 2014 I photographed two protests in central London, the primary in entrance of Uganda Home in Trafalgar Sq. in opposition to the Anti-Homosexuality Act which had been handed by the Ugandan parliament however was awaiting signature by the President, and the second in Parliament Sq. calling for the closure of the unlawful Guantanamo torture camp and the discharge of UK Resident Shaker Aamer.
Towards Uganda’s Anti-Homosexual Regulation – Uganda Home
A crowd crammed the pavement outdoors Uganda Home on Trafalgar Sq. in a protest organised by the African LGBTI Out & Proud Diamond Group and Peter Tatchell Basis and supported by different teams together with Queer Strike, Motion for Justice, Lesbian Homosexual Christians, Rainbows Throughout Borders, the RMT, Nigerian LGBTIs and Ladies of Color.
They referred to as on President Museveni to not signal the Anti-Homosexuality Invoice, (sometimes called the ‘Kill the Gays’ Invoice.) Initially the Invoice had referred to as for the loss of life penalty for what it described as “aggravated homosexuality”, however this was diminished to life imprisonment when it was handed by an inquorate Ugandan Parliament in December regardless of not being on the day’s order of enterprise.
Museveni finally signed and the Act grew to become regulation on twenty fourth February 2014. The invoice, into consideration by the Ugandan parliament since 2009 had provoked an enormous quantity of worldwide condemnation and in June 2014 the US introduced numerous sanctions in opposition to Uganda.
This Act was annulled by Uganda’s Constitutional Courtroom in August 2014 because it had been handed with out the mandatory parliamentary quorum.
However in 2023, the Ugandan Parliament handed a brand new Anti-Homosexuality Act. Museveni handed it again to them for reconsideration when it was handed with minor amendments by a vote of 348 to 1 and he then signed it into regulation. It supplied life imprisonment for gay acts and the loss of life penalty for acts involving numerous teams of weak individuals together with these underneath 18 or over 75, disabled or mentally ailing and repeat offenders or acts which transmit severe infectious ailments.
In 2024, the Constitutional Courtroom upheld the 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act, making a number of minor modifications, asserting “In defiance of worldwide regulation, the judges dominated that the act doesn’t violate basic rights to equality and nondiscrimination, privateness, freedom of expression, or the appropriate to work for LGBT individuals.”
Extra concerning the 2014 protest at Towards Uganda’s Anti-Homosexual Regulation.
Free Shaker Aamer Vigil – Parliament Sq.
The Save Shaker Aamer marketing campaign mounted its first vigil in 2014 reverse Parliament calling for the Londoner’s pressing launch. Held there with out cost of trial since Feb 14, 2002 he was first cleared for launch in 2007.
A dozen protesters in orange Guantanamo-style bounce fits and black hoods lined the pavement reverse Parliament with posters and banners, often strolling slowly up and all the way down to remind MPs of the necessity to press the US for his launch. Though there has by no means been any proof in opposition to him, his launch and proof of his persevering with torture and the complicity on this of the British safety service MI6 would enormously embarrass each the UK and US
You’ll be able to learn extra about his case in my account on My London Diary. Ultimately after years of public stress and protests reminiscent of this he was lastly launched to the UK on 30 October 2015.
Flickr – Fb – My London Diary – Hull Pictures – Lea Valley – Paris
London’s Industrial Heritage – London Pictures
All images on this web page are copyright © Peter Marshall.
Contact me to purchase prints or licence to breed.
Tags: 2014, African LGBTI, anti-gay regulation, Diamond Group, Free Shaker Aamer Vigil, Guantanamo, Lesbian Homosexual Christians, London, Motion for Justice, Museveni, Nigerian LGBTI, Out & Proud, peter Marshall, Peter Tatchell, Peter Tatchell Basis, protest, Queer Strike, Rainbows Throughout Borders, RMT, Save Shaker Aamer Marketing campaign, Shaker Aamer, torture, Uganda, Uganda Home, vigil, Ladies of Color, ‘Kill the Gays’ Invoice
You’ll be able to depart a response, or trackback from your individual web site.
