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Uganda: Police stop gay pride parade deemed illegal

 

ENTEBBE, Uganda - Ugandan police on Saturday prevented organizers from holding a gay pride parade on the orders of a government minister who said such an event is illegal.

 

Police blocked organizers from staging the event at two locations outside the Ugandan capital, Kampala, said Frank Mugisha, a gay rights leader in Uganda.

 

More than 100 LGBT people turned up for the event Saturday at a beach on Lake Victoria. Most were later ordered into minibuses and escorted by police to Kampala, apparently for questioning, the reason one young man jumped off a moving minibus and injured himself, Mugisha said.

 

"They are traumatized," he said.

 

The LGBT people who had traveled in the mini-buses were later set free, he said.

 


פרסום ראשון: 09.24.16, 17:00