WikiLeaks cables: Ugandan gay rights activist 'mocked' at rights seminar

Dan82 · Feb 17, 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/17/wikileaks-cables-gay-rights-uganda

Murdered gay rights activist David Kato was mocked at a UN-backed debate on Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill, according to a US diplomat in Kampala in a leaked American embassy cable.

The diplomat said Kato, who was bludgeoned to death near his home in the capital, Kampala, last month, delivered a well-written speech against the bill, but his words were almost inaudible due to "his evident nervousness". Throughout his talk a member of the Ugandan Human Rights Commission "openly joked and snickered" with supporters of the bill, the diplomat claimed in the cable.

The "consultative meeting" in December 2009, organised with funding from the UN, aimed to discuss the bill, which would impose the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality" and life imprisonment for consenting adults who have gay sex...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/17/wikileaks-cables-gay-rights-uganda
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WikiLeaks cables: Ugandan gay rights activist 'mocked' at rights seminar

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