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Uganda is facing backlash for its first-ever charge in direct offense of new anti-gay legislation. Prosecutors in the country charged a 20-year-old man with “aggravated homosexuality” on Aug. 18, a ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities have charged a man with aggravated homosexuality, which carries a possible death penalty, in the first use of the charge since the enactment in May of an ...

Prosecutors in Africa said a 20-year-old man is the first person to be charged in Uganda with "aggravated homosexuality" − a crime punishable by death under a controversial anti-gay law that went into ...

Authorities in Uganda have charged a 20-year-old man with “aggravated homosexuality” — an offense punishable by death — under the country’s newly enacted anti-LGBTQ law, prosecutors said. Uganda’s ...

In Uganda, a 20-year-old man has become the first person to be charged for so-called aggravated homosexuality. That's an offense that carries the death penalty under some of the most punitive anti-gay ...