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Ugandan nurse appeals jail sentence over needle contamination

Rosemary Namubiru, a nurse sentenced for injecting a baby with a HIV contaminated needle, has appealed against her jail sentence on grounds that the offence she was charged with does not relate to HIV but to contagious diseases such as Ebola and measles. Read More 

Gay man sentenced for Twitter debauchery in Saudi Arabia

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced an homosexual man to three years in prison and 450 lashes for using his Twitter account to promote homosexual contacts. The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, the religious police, was alerted about the tweets and was able to apprehend the young man after it set him up using an undercover agent. Read More

Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act struck down by court

The Constitutional Court nullified the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2014 for having been passed by Parliament without the required quorum of at least one third of all legislators. In a unanimous ruling, the panel of five justices blamed the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga for acting illegally by abdicating her constitutional responsibility of ascertaining whether there was quorum in the House before the Bill was passed into law. 

The ruling does not mean that the court nullified the content or substance of the law. The Bill can be easily returned to Parliament and passed again, with the required quorum. This petition involved a group of pro-gay activists who sued the government challenging the passing of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
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