A prosecutor for the applicant claimed a Zimbabwean court on Tuesday rejected a request by an LGBT advocacy group to urge the government to record it.
Sexual Minorities Uganda ( SMUG) filed the lawsuit in the country’s high court in 2015 after the government’s registrar of companies refused to list it because it would allow the organization to operate legally and called its name “undesirable.”
Additionally, it added that the organization at the time promoted people’s rights while upholding Ugandan legislation. Because SMUG’s activities were not formally registered, the Ugandan authorities suspended them in 2022.
Since the European colonial age, same-sex relationships have been prohibited in Uganda. In May, the country passed one of the strictest anti-LGBT laws, outlawing the “promotion” of homosexuality.
The case was decided on Tuesday as an elegance of a ruling in the lower judge that had ruled in favor of SMUG, one of Uganda’s most well-known LGBT rights organizations.
The court ruled that the secretary was correct to label the name” SMUG” because its goals were to promote the rights and welfare of those whose conduct is prohibited by Uganda’s laws, according to Edward Ssemambo, the SMUG’s attorney, according to Reuters.
The same judge that issued the decision as the constitutional court that is scheduled to rule soon on a challenge to the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which forbids specific same-sex offenses andimposes maximum sentences of 20 years in prison.
In December, a legal problem was brought up before the court. A decision is anticipated quickly, claim LGBT rights campaigners.
As the upcoming ruling on the anti-LGBT law approached, Ssemambo claimed Tuesday’s ruling was” not reassuring,” but that petition addressed wider issues of politics and economics that might affect the judges ‘ decisions.
