Canadá veta participação de países que praticam homofobia

in: http://www.advivo.com.br/blog/luisnassif/canada-veta-participacao-de-paises-que-praticam-homofobia

Canadá veta participantes ugandenses, por homofobia, em conferência

Dirigindo-se aos delegados da 127ª Conferência da União Interparlamentar, em Quebec, dia 23/10, a porta-voz do Parlamento de Uganda, Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga, informou que autoridades canadenses recusaram visto de entrada para a maioria dos parlamentares ugandenses, que iriam participar do evento, por estes terem aprovado uma lei criminalizando o casamento LGBT em seu país. Acrescentou que mesmo os dois deles que obtiveram o visto foram impedidos de fazer apresentações em plenária pelos organizadores da conferência.

Seguindo a orientação anti-homofóbica, as autoridades canadenses também negaram vistos de entrada para delegados de Mali e da Síria. No início da semana, o Ministro das Relações Exteriores, John Baird, já havia criticado a posição sobre direitos humanos tanto de Uganda quanto do Irã, sendo acusado por representantes dos dois países de arrogantemente querer interferir em seus assuntos internos.

Baird citou o histórico de violência homofóbica de Uganda e, em particular, o assassinato do ativista David Kato em 2011. Um mês antes, o Ministro da Justiça canadense Jason Kenney igualmente já havia dito que seu país estava determinado a promover os direitos LGBT em nível internacional. Como em outros aspectos, altamente civilizado, o Canadá deixa claro que a violência cometida contra grupos sociais não pode ser considerada mera questão de diferenças culturais e que deve ser combatida por todos os países democráticos do planeta até seu desaparecimento.

http://www.advivo.com.br/blog/luisnassif/canada-veta-participacao-de-paises-que-praticam-homofobia

Uganda Police Interrupt Training Workshop for Gay Activists

in: http://www.voanews.com/
Ugandan police officers stand by the entrance of the Esella Country Hotel after police raided a gay rights workshop which was taking place in the hotel in Kampala, June 18, 2012.

Police in Uganda interrupted a human rights training session Monday, saying it was an illegal assembly.  Advocates say the workshop was legal, but they were targeted because they were training gay rights activists. 
More than two dozen Ugandan police officers, some in riot gear, broke up a meeting of human rights activists at a hotel outside Kampala.  Most of the Ugandan participants fled the hotel in Najjera before the police arrived, but activists from Canada, Kenya and Rwanda were detained for questioning.
The meeting, organized by the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, was to train local gay activists on how to report human rights abuses.
Sari Naskinen, the deputy director of the organizing group, said the workshop was interrupted because of its focus on Uganda's gay community.
"It was very clear that we were targeted because of that," said Naskinen.
Uganda's gay community has come under fire repeatedly in recent years.  The incident follows a similar episode in February, when Uganda's Minister of Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo led the police in a raid of a gay rights meeting in Entebbe.  And members of parliament and other leaders continue to push for the passage of a bill that would make homosexual acts punishable by death or life imprisonment.
Naskinen said the Monday raid began halfway through the first day of the three-day workshop, when members of the local media demanded access.  She said they threatened to call the police if they were not allowed to interview participants.  The police eventually arrived, but it is unclear if members of the media called them.
"Some of our participants were manhandled," said Naskinen.  "The police just came.  They did not identify themselves as police.  They were in civilian clothes.  And they basically just dragged them out to the reception area."
All of the participants were eventually released.



http://www.voanews.com/

Presidente de país com lei anti-gay diz que não há homofobia

in: http://www.athosgls.com.br/

 

Mas lei anti-gay está para ser votada

O presidente de UgandaYoweri Museveni disse, em entrevista para a "CNN" que o país dele não persegue gays e que a lei contra a homossexualidade, prestes a ser aprovada, é para evitar "exibicionismo" e para não "atrair" as crianças.

Ainda de acordo com ele, a legislação anti-gay é para promover a privacidade e discrição.

"O problema (dos gays) é o exibicionismo. E o segundo problema é a tentativa de atrair jovens e crianças para a homossexualidade" explicou Museveni.

Ele ainda ressaltou que a diferença do povo africano para outros povos quando se trata da sexualidade. "Os africanos são pessoas discretas por natureza… Eu, por exemplo, nunca beijei minha mulher em público" disse.

A proposta anti-gay prevê pena de morte para gays em alguns casos, mas o presidente disse que esse artigo deve cair.

da Redação do Toda Forma de Amor 

http://www.athosgls.com.br/

Uganda's anti-gay bill reintroduced in parliament

in: http://news.yahoo.com/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-reintroduced-parliament-143342097.html

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The Ugandan parliamentarian who first introduced an anti-gay bill that carried the death penalty for some homosexual acts reintroduced the bill on Tuesday, raising concerns among rights activists who have been fighting the legislation.

Parliamentarian David Bahati first introduced the bill in 2009 but it has never come before the full legislative body for a vote. Though widely supported in Uganda, the bill's progress apparently has been slowed by an international outcry against the bill, including condemnation from President Barack Obama.

Bahati has said that homosexuality poses a serious threat to family values and that his bill has helped raise public awareness about what he calls "the dangers to our children."

Bahati told The Associated Press last year that he is willing to drop the death penalty provision if that is the recommendation of a parliament committee, though a current reading of the bill hasn't been made public.

European countries such as Sweden and Britain have threatened to cut aid to Uganda if the bill is passed.

Homosexuality, already illegal under Uganda's penal code, is highly stigmatized in Uganda. Opinion polls frequently show the bill's wide support among Ugandans. Lawmakers other than Bahati have sometimes spoken passionately about the need for such a law, and none have condemned it.

The bill has been championed by Pentecostal clerics, who warn that young Ugandans are at risk of being indoctrinated into gay lifestyles by gays visiting from the U.S. and Europe. Even pastors who oppose the draft law do so not because it is draconian or unnecessary, but rather because they believe the police would not be able to enforce it.

"I've rejected it because it does not address Uganda's homosexuality problem," said Solomon Male, a Pentecostal cleric who has been dragged to court for accusing another pastor of sodomy. "The system can't permit any good law to be enforced."

Male said that an existing law against homosexuality, inherited from the colonial days, had not been enforced.

"It is a big problem-homosexuals are in our schools, in our churches, everywhere, and we don't even know where to start," he said. "Sensitization is the best."

Bahati's original bill carried harsh provisions. The original bill would mandate a death sentence for active homosexuals living with HIV or in cases of same-sex rape. "Serial offenders" also could face capital punishment, but the legislation did not define the term. Anyone convicted of a homosexual act would face life imprisonment.

Anyone who "aids, abets, counsels or procures another to engage of acts of homosexuality" would face seven years in prison. Landlords who rent rooms or homes to gays also could get seven years.

Ugandan LGBT activists honour David Kato on anniversary of his death

in: http://news.pinkpaper.com/NewsStory/6810/27/01/2012/ugandan-lgbt-activists-honour-david-kato-on-anniversary-of-his-death.aspx

Equality activists gathered in Uganda yesterday to mark the first anniversary of David Kato's death.

As reported by PinkPaper.com, Kato was murdered in January 2011 shortly after winning a lawsuit against Uganda's Rolling Stone newspaper which published his name and photograph, calling for him to be executed for being gay.

"We are here to celebrate and thank God for our beloved friend and human rights activist David Kato," Yahoo! news report Christopher Senyonjo telling a crowd of around 100 activists and family members.

Last November, a 22 year-old man was sentenced to thirty years in jail for the brutal killing of the Ugandan LGBT activist.

Sidney Nsubuga Enoch was handed the sentence by the Uganda High Court in Mukono town.

Nalongo Kisule, Kato's mother, was also reported to be there.

Yahoo! News report her as saying: "It is not easy when a loved one dies but thanks to all the friends inside and outside Uganda who worked with David ... when I get down they lift me up and help me."

Ugandan lesbian rugby player granted asylum in Germany

Ikulmet was granted asylum after her treatment in Uganda

The former head of Uganda’s female rugby team has been granted asylum in Germany after facing harassment, the country’s DW News reports.

Lilian Ikulmet, who was in charge of the She Cranes, said she had been raped, beaten and discriminated against by men for her sexuality.

Ikulmet, a professional journalist also worked as a writer at the Daily Monitor newspaper in her native Uganda.

She said she now wants to leave the gay hostel where she is hiding at the end of the year and move into an apartment of her own.

Ikulmet also expressed a desire to apply for a visa for her girlfriend, whom she hopes to marry.

Earlier this year, Robert Segwanyi was granted leave to apply to remain in the UK as a result of his treatment in Uganda, following protracted questions over whether he was really gay.

Segwanyi said he was harassed and burnt with molten plastic while in Uganda, and feared he would be killed or jailed on his return to the African state.

The UK Border Authority agreed to reconsider his case at the last minute before his deportation.

Ugandan jailed for 30 years for murder of gay activist

in: http://af.reuters.com/

A man who confessed to murdering a Ugandan gay activist by beating him with a hammer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the crime, a local newspaper reported on Friday.

Enock Nsubuga was sentenced by a high court in Mukono, about 20 km (13 miles) east of the capital Kampala, for the murder of David Kato, the Daily Monitor newspaper reported.

"The 30 year sentence was passed by Justice Joseph Mulangira after Nsubuga admitted to have murdered David Kato, 46, on 26th January 2011," the paper reported.

Kato, one of the country's most prominent gay campaigners, was beaten to death with a hammer at his home and died on the way to hospital.

The case provoked worldwide condemnation and drew attention to gay rights issues in Uganda. But police said Nsubuga was a "thief" known to Kato and the murder was not related to the victim's gay rights campaign.

Homosexuality is taboo in many African nations. It is illegal in 37 countries on the continent, including Uganda, and activists say few Africans are openly gay, fearing imprisonment, violence and loss of jobs.

Before he was murdered in January, Kato had been featured in an anti-gay newspaper that "outed" people it said were gay and called on the government to kill them. Kato's photograph was published on the cover under the headline: "Hang Them."

Uganda drew international censure when an anti-gay bill proposing the death penalty for homosexuals who are "repeat offenders" was presented to parliament in October 2009.

Pressure from gay rights activists and Western governments later forced parliament to shelve the bill.

24 horas para impedir a pena de morte a gays em Uganda

Em 24 horas, O parlamento de Uganda pode votar uma nova lei brutal que prevê a pena de morte para a homossexualidade. Milhares de ugandenses poderiam enfrentar a execução - apenas por serem gays.

Nós ajudamos a impedir esta lei antes, e podemos fazê-lo novamente. Depois de uma manifestação global massiva ano passado, o presidente ugandense Museveni bloqueou o progresso da lei. Mas os distúrbios políticos estão crescendo em Uganda, e extremistas religiosos no parlamento estão esperando que a confusão e violência nas ruas distraia a comunidade internacional de uma segunda tentativa de aprovar essa lei cheia de ódio. Nós podemosmostrar a eles que o mundo ainda está observando. Se bloquearmos o voto por mais dois dias até que o parlamento feche, a lei expirará para sempre.

Nós não temos tempo a perder. Quase metade de nós já se juntou ao chamado - vamos chegar a um milhão de vozes contra a pena de morte para gays em Uganda nas próximas 24 horas - clique aqui para agir, e então encaminhe este e-mail para todos:

http://www.avaaz.org/po/uganda_stop_homophobia_petition_2/?vl

Ser gay em Uganda já é perigosoe aterrorizante. Eles são frequentemente assediados e espancados, e apenas há alguns meses o ativista de direitos gays David Kato (foto acima), foi brutalmente assassinado em sua própria casa. Agora os ugandenses da LGBT são ameaçados por essa lei draconiana que impõe prisão perpétua a pessoas condenadas por relações com o mesmo sexo e a pena de morte para "ofensores sérios". Até mesmo ONGs trabalhando para prevenir a disseminação do HIV podem ser condenadas por "promover a homossexualidade" sob essa lei cheia de ódio.

Agora mesmo, Uganda está em tumulto político - na onda da primavera árabe, pessoas em todo o país estão tomando as ruas, protestando contra os altos preços de comida e gasolina. O presidente Museveni respondeu reprimindo violentamente a oposição. Essa revolta forneceu aos extremistas religiosos no parlamento a chance perfeita de tirar da gaveta a lei homofóbica apenas dias antes do parlamento ser fechado e todas as leis propostas serem apagadas dos livros.

O presidente Museveni desistiu desta lei no ano passado depois da pressão internacional ameaçar o suporte e auxílio a Uganda. Com protestos violentos varrendo as ruas, seu governo está mais vulnerável que nunca. Vamos fazer uma petição com a força de um milhão para impedir a lei da pena de morte para gays novamente e salvar vidas. Nós temos apenas 24 horas - assine abaixo, e então conte a amigos e família:

http://www.avaaz.org/po/uganda_stop_homophobia_petition_2/?vl

Este ano nós nos solidarizamos com o movimento de igualdade de Uganda para mostrar que toda vida humana, não importa o credo, nacionalidade ou orientação sexual, é igualmente preciosa. Nossa petição internacional condenando a lei da pena de morte para gays foi entregue ao parlamento - impulsionando uma rede de notícias globais e pressão suficiente para bloquear a lei por meses. Quando um jornal publicou 100 nomes, fotos e endereços de suspeitos gays e os identificados foram ameaçados, a Avaaz auxiliou uma ação legal contra o jornal e nós ganhamos! Juntos nós nos levantamos, por vezes e vezes, pela comunidade gay de Uganda - agora eles precisam de nós mais que nunca.

Com esperança e determinação,

Emma, Iain, Alice, Morgan, Brianna e o resto da equipe da Avaaz


FONTES:

Homossexualidade a um passo de ser motivo para pena de morte na Uganda
http://www.publico.pt/Mundo/homossexualidade-a-um-passo-de-ser-motivo-para-pena-de-morte-no-uganda_1493436

Uganda enfrenta o fundamentalismo cristão
http://www.outraspalavras.net/2011/05/03/uganda-enfrente-o-fundamentalismo-cristao/

Homossexualidade a um passo de ser motivo para pena de morte no Uganda

http://www.publico.pt/

O Parlamento ugandês está a um passo de aprovar um projecto-lei que prevê, entre outras medidas, a pena de morte para os homossexuais.

Nesta quarta-feira, a chamada “Lei de morte aos gays”, ou Carta Anti-Homossexualidade, poderá estar em vigor no Uganda, um país onde os actos homossexuais são actualmente considerados um crime, punível até 14 anos de prisão.

O diploma, que tem vindo a ser discutido nos últimos dias entre deputados, foi apresentado há dois anos por David Bahati, político ugandês e deputado do partido Movimento Nacional de Resistência, actualmente no poder. O texto conta com o fervoroso apoio do pastor Martin Ssempa, empenhado em campanhas que defendem que a homossexualidade constitui um pecado.

Num vídeo disponível no YouTube, de 2010, podemos ver Ssempa explicar à sua audiência o porquê da criação da lei anti-gays: “Estamos a fazer legislação para ter a certeza de que a homossexualidade e a sodomia nunca verão a luz da legalidade nesta terra de África”.

Em 2009, em consequência de fortes críticas vindas de vários países, a proposta acabou por ser abandonada, mas agora o tema volta a estar em cima da mesa e as sanções podem vir a tornar-se mais pesadas para aqueles que, de acordo com o projecto-lei, são considerados “criminosos reincidentes”.

O documento prevê desde pena de prisão até pena de morte para quem mantenha relações com pessoas do mesmo sexo. E até quem, independentemente da sua orientação sexual, tenha conhecimento de alguém que seja homossexual e não o participe às autoridades – num prazo máximo de 24 horas – poderá enfrentar uma pena de prisão até três anos.

Com receio de que a lei venha a ser aprovada, foi lançada uma petição online a ser dirigida ao Presidente Yoweri Museveni, para que este declare a sua intenção de vetar a proposta.

http://www.publico.pt/

America grants a gay, deaf Ugandan asylum

in: http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/



(l to r) CT PRIDE members William Urich and Kalisa* with Attorneys Marisa DeFranco and Amy Grunder moments after Kalisa was granted US asylum.

Recently I traveled to the JFK Federal Building in Boston to appear as a witness on behalf of Kalisa*, who works with Connecticut PRIDE. Kalisa, a Ugandan citizen, petitioned for a stay of deportation and had requested US asylum. For some time now, I have been working with Pascal's attorney, Marisa DeFranco, to keep the US government from sending Kalisaback to Uganda. We all know what happens there.

Kalisa's case is unique in that he is not only gay, but is also hearing impaired since the age of 10 when an incorrect treatment for malaria in his village in Uganda left him deaf. There are no protections or accommodations for people with disabilities in Uganda. That fact, complicated by his homosexuality, would surely have made Kalisa another sad statistic if he were to be sent back.

Because of Attorney DeFranco's constant, diligent vigilance and amazingly thorough work over the past year and a half, it gives me an extreme pleasure to announce that Kalisa has been granted asylum by the United States government and is no longer faced with the threat of deportation back to his native Uganda. I should also add that the hundreds of hours of Attorney DeFranco's superior work were completely pro bono.We at Connecticut PRIDE are deeply grateful for her dedication and hard work and share a huge sigh of relief with Kalisa.

*Not his real name. Kalisa asked to use a pseudonym because he fears for the safety of his family in Uganda if his real identity is used.


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Slaying of Gay Activist Spotlights Homophobia's Rise in Uganda

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/12/slaying-of-gay-activist-david-kato-spotlights-homophobias-rise/

In this staunchly anti-homosexual country, Allen Mutebi has gotten used to moving -- five times within the last two years, to be exact.

"They suspect. They talk. Threats are made. I move on," shrugs Mutebi, a gay man who spoke on condition that his real name not be used because he feared for his safety.

The killing of gay right activist David Kato last month has reinforced anti-homosexual attitudes in Uganda.

But following the killing of prominent gay rights activist David Kato two weeks ago, Mutebi plans to make one final move -- out of Uganda.

"What happened to Kato will happen to more and more people," he predicts.

The motive behind Kato's slaying is still under investigation. Police officials say it did not relate to Kato's sexuality; gay and lesbian activists suspect that it did.

Either way, Kato's death has put the national spotlight squarely on the subject of homosexuality.

Elsewhere, some high-profile murders of sexual minorities -- Matthew Shepard in the U.S., for instance -- became watersheds for greater tolerance. But here, Kato's death has reinforced anti-homosexual attitudes.

The Sunday after Kato's slaying, a prominent pastor, Martin Ssempa, told his congregation of mostly university students that Kato had tricked his "victims" into getting drunk before molesting them and fleeing into the night.

Ssempa has been a leading voice against gays and lesbians here, framing homosexuality as a Western import designed to corrupt African culture, and going so far as to show gay pornography in his church. (California pastor Rick Warren had once found common cause with Ssempa but has since distanced himself.)

But in the wake of Kato's death, it's no longer just the radicals who are thundering against homosexuality.

An Anglican priest at Kato's funeral shocked hundreds in attendance when he said, "The world has gone crazy. ... You cannot start admiring a fellow man."

Mutebi says former friends have threatened to have him killed following Kato's slaying.

And Kato's former colleague at the rights group Freedom and Roam Uganda, Kasha Jacqueline, says she has switched off her phone amid an uptick in death threats. "We've never been safe but the threats are growing," she said.

Outlets that could typically be counted on to protect the rights of minorities have been profoundly absent amid the rising homophobia, she said.

The Uganda Human Rights Commission issued a quarter-page letter urging the police to quickly investigate the matter but beyond that has found no compelling reason to change its approach according to the changing circumstances.

"We don't want to single out a group," commission chief Med S.K. Kaggwa said. "When you start identifying with one group, you stop doing your job."

The media, too, have done little to curb the spread of homophobia. The leading anti-establishment daily, the Monitor, relegated news of Kato's slaying to a sliver at the bottom of Page 1. Uganda's top tabloid, the Red Pepper, referred to Kato as a "sodomy champ," and on Thursday supplemented news of him with that of a lesbian "recruiter," without explaining what was meant by recruiting.

Parliamentarian David Bahati is sponsoring an anti-homosexual bill that, if passed in its
present form -- and he is confident it will -- would make it a crime for a landlord to offer housing to a homosexual and for a parent not to report a homosexual child to the authorities. He says he is encouraged by the national unity on display.

"Kato's murder is bringing the national debate back to where it belongs," he said. "Kato worked hard to destroy the lives of our children and families." Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda and in more than 30 other African countries.

The crisis here as some see it is not anti-homosexual sentiment per se -- firmly rooted as it is in tradition and religion -- but in an unwillingness among spiritual and political leaders to urge their followers to draw a distinction between opposing homosexuality and pursuing violence in the name of that opposition.

Last year, a weekly tabloid, Rolling Stone (no affiliation with the American music magazine), published the names and photos of suspected homosexuals next to a banner that read "hang them," which led to those listed, including Kato, being singled out and threatened.

Still, few if any prominent leaders spoke out against the publication, though a Ugandan court did rule that Rolling Stone's actions threatened the safety of gays and lesbians and ordered the magazine to pay $650 in damages.

The office of President Yoweri Museveni, perhaps worried about losing votes in the upcoming election, has been largely silent amid these developments. It issued no statements regarding Kato's death, even as international leaders -- from President Barack Obama to Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams -- did.

One spiritual institution in Uganda that has called for equal rights for gays and lesbians is the Unitarian Universalist Church. The church's leader, the Rev. Mark Kiyimba, is holding a conference next week to promote greater understanding of the gay community. He opposes street demonstrations and other confrontational forms of activism, which he says will just politicize the issue and incite backlash against homosexuals, favoring what he calls "community engagement" to encourage tolerance.

Pastor Moses Solomon Male, who heads the National Coalition Against Homosexuality and Sexual Abuse in Uganda, says he is concerned that the anti-homosexual cause is failing to make an important distinction.

Male (pronounced mal-eh) says he favors a strong emphasis on treatment to convert homosexuals to a heterosexual lifestyle and has proposed extensive changes to the anti-homosexuality law to reflect that. He says that he would also urge Ugandans "to be calm and not beat them," but that he does not have enough resources to convey that message.

"Wanting to make a contribution [toward ending homosexuality in Uganda] is one
thing; how to do it is another," he told AOL News.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/12/slaying-of-gay-activist-david-kato-spotlights-homophobias-rise/

European Parliament repeats firm opposition to Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Bill

in: http://www.lgbt-ep.eu/press-releases/european-parliament-repeats-firm-opposition-to-ugandas-anti-homosexuality-bill/

Yesterday the European Parliament adopted an urgency resolution condemning the “Anti Homosexuality Bill” under consideration in the Ugandan Parliament since September 2009.

The European Parliament repeated its opposition to a draft law calling for fines, imprisonment and the death penalty for Ugandan lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Uganda and abroad. The Bill prescribes capital punishment in some cases, including engaging in sexual intercourse more than once with a person of the same sex. It also requires all parents, teachers and doctors to denounce LGBT children, students and patients to authorities.

The European Parliament first condemned the Bill in a December 2009 urgency resolution.

Even though the Bill has not passed yet, the European Parliament noted a sharp increase in severe threats and violence against LGBT people in Uganda, including calls for violence and killings of people presumed to be homosexual.

The resolution further calls on other European Institutions to keep sending strong messages to the government and parliament in Kampala.

Michael Cashman MEP, Co-President of the Intergroup on LGBT Rights, declared: “This is the only right message to send: criminalising people’s sexual orientation or gender identity is morally untenable, and contradicts everything the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stands for. Ugandan authorities must absolutely stop the adoption of this Bill.”

Raül Romeva i Rueda MEP, Vice-President of the LGBT Intergroup, added: “The European Parliament is united against this draconian piece of legislation: left, right, centre, everyone agrees that LGBT people must not be criminalised. Homosexuality is as African as it is Asian, American, European and Oceanian: it is part of our humanity. I hope Ugandans will remember this.”

The European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights will organise a hearing on LGBT rights in the world in the first half of 2011.

Activista dos direitos das pessoas LGBT encontrado decapitado no Uganda

Fica aqui a tradução em português da notícia do post anterior.

A notícia originalmente em inglês pode ser encontrada em: http://www.365gay.com/news/uganda-gay-rights-activist-decapitated/


Activista dos direitos das pessoas LGBT encontrado decapitado no Uganda

O activista LGBT do Uganda Pasikali Kashusbe foi encontrado assassinado quando a Polícia Ugandesa encontrou a sua cabeça decepada, que tinha sido atirada para uma sanita.

A sanita estava na quinta do patrão de Pasikali Kashusbe, o Presidente da Comissão eleitoral, Badru Kiggundu.

Na semana passada, um corpo mutilado sexualmente e decapitado tinha sido encontrado a menos de um quilómetro do local onde encontraram a cabeça de Pasikali Kashube. Tem sido noticiado que os investigadores acreditam que este era o corpo de Kashube.

Kashube era voluntário na «Integridade Uganda», um grupo de direitos dos homossexuais. Ele desapareceu em Junho, mas as autoridades ugandesas só o encontraram quando estavam à procura de outro activista desaparecido, o Rev. Henry Kayizzi Nsubuga.

Nsubuga está desaparecido há três semanas, desde que fez um sermão em favor dos direitos gays no Uganda.

A homossexualidade é ilegal no Uganda, com punição até prisão perpétua. A lei, conhecida nos Estados Unidos como "kill the gays bill" ("lei: matar os gays") foi introduzida em Outubro e iria fazer com que os condenados por homossexualidade fossem sujeitos à pena de morte. O projecto de lei está a ser cumprido com muitas críticas da comunidade internacional, embora pareça ter sido desencadeada por uma visita de missionários evangélicos dos Estados Unidos.

O legislador do Uganda, que propôs a lei, David Bahati, recusou-se a revogá-la, apesar da pressão internacional.

Uganda gay rights activist decapitated

Ontem fui assolada por esta triste notícia que me deixa a mim, como LGBT e a tod@s @s que defendem os direitos das pessoas LGBT e Direitos Humanos, consternados.

(A notícia está em inglês, posso traduzi-la para português, se for necessário, mas decidi postá-la aqui mesmo estando em inglês porque não podia deixar passar em branco uma notícia tão triste e revoltante como esta).


Uganda gay rights activist decapitated

Ugandan LGBT activist Pasikali Kashusbe was discovered murdered when Ugandan police found his severed head, which had been thrown down a latrine.

The latrine was on the farm of Kashube’s employer, Electoral Commission Chairman Badru Kiggundu.

Last week, a sexually-mutilated and decapitated body had been found less than a mile from the site of Kashube’s head. It has been reported that investigators believe this was Kashube’s body.

Kashube was a volunteer with Integrity Uganda, a gay rights group. He went missing in June, but Ugandan officials only found him when they were searching for another missing gay activist, Rev. Henry Kayizzi Nsubuga.

Nsubuga has been missing for three weeks, ever since he delivered a sermon in support of gay rights in Uganda.

Homosexuality in Uganda is illegal, with punishment up to life imprisonment. A bill, known colloquially in the U.S. as the "kill the gays bill" was introduced in October that would make those convicted of homosexuality subject to the death penalty. The bill is being met with much criticism from the international community, though it appears to have been sparked by a visit from U.S. evangelical missionaries.

The Ugandan lawmaker who proposed the bill, David Bahati, has refused to repeal the bill, despite international pressure.

http://www.365gay.com/news/uganda-gay-rights-activist-decapitated/

Para todos os que se questionam sobre a necessidade de existirem Marchas do Orgulho LGBT, esta é a razão: é preciso chamar a atenção, denunciar todas estas atrocidades que são cometidas , pelo Mundo fora, para com as pessoas LGBT (Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais e Transgéneros) e dar voz a tod@s @s que, por serem perseguidos, presos, torturados, assassinados por causa da sua orientação sexual ou identidade de género, não lhes é permitido nos seus países terem essa voz para denunciarem estas atrocidades.

É preciso dizer "BASTA!" a crimes de ódio como este que, em pleno século XXI ainda são uma triste e revoltante realidade, crimes cometidos a pessoas que simplesmente têm uma orientação sexual ou identidade de género que não a da maioria.

BASTA! BASTA! BASTA!