A lawyer for the applicant claimed that a Ugandan court on Tuesday rejected a request from an LGBT advocacy team to convince the authorities to register 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 at the moment, the organization promoted the rights of people whose lives were deregulated by Ugandan rules. 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 sexuality.
The situation was decided on Tuesday as an elegance of a lower court’s 2018 decision to support SMUG, one of Uganda’s most well-known LGBT rights organizations.
The court ruled that the secretary was correct to label the brand” 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. Activists for LGBT rights claim they anticipate a decision immediately.
Ssemambo claimed that the ruling on Tuesday was” not reassuring” as the upcoming decision on the anti-LGBT law approached, but that it addressed more important political and economic issues that might affect the judges ‘ decisions.
( Editors Lucy Marks and Aaron Ross )
