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"Ugandan police raid US-backed agency offering AIDS services" by Rodney Muhumuza | Associated Press April 05, 2014
KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan police raided the offices of a United States-funded project known to offer AIDS services to homosexuals, a government spokesman said Friday, in what appeared to be the first public action by police to enforce a new law that strengthened criminal penalties against gay sex.
The Makerere University Walter Reed Project in the Ugandan capital of Kampala was targeted for ‘‘training youths in homosexuality,’’ spokesman Ofwono Opondo said on Twitter on Friday. He offered no further details but said a ‘‘top diplomat’’ was involved in the alleged training.
The project said in a statement Friday that it was suspending its activities in Uganda after one of its staff, a Ugandan citizen, was arrested and briefly detained by police on Thursday.
‘‘We are working with police to understand the circumstances under which this person was detained,’’ the statement said. ‘‘Until we have greater clarity as to the legal basis for the police action, the operations of the program are temporarily suspended to ensure the safety of staff and the integrity of the program.’’
Frank Mugisha, a gay leader in Uganda, said the project — a nonprofit partnership between a Ugandan university and the US Military HIV Research Program — was known to offer services to gays who suffer from AIDS, he said.
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‘‘A lot of LGBTI people found it comfortable to go there for anti-retroviral treatment,’’ he said.
Patrick Onyango, a spokesman for Ugandan police, denied the raid, saying a man pretending to represent the police threatened workers at the project. He said that authorities were now looking for the man, after police in his jurisdiction briefly arrested and then freed him.
Daniel Travis, a spokesman for the US Embassy in Kampala, declined to comment.
Uganda’s president in February enacted a new measure that allows up to life imprisonment for those convicted of engaging in gay sex and sets a seven-year jail term for the offense of ‘‘attempted homosexuality.’’ Despite criticism from the United States and other Western countries that say the law is Draconian and should be repealed, it has wide popularity among Ugandans.
On Monday it became the first legislation in Uganda to be publicly celebrated in a rally attended by President Yoweri Museveni, who told a raucous crowd that he was ‘‘mobilizing’’ to fight Western gays he accuses of promoting homosexuality in Africa.
At that rally, attended by thousands of Ugandans, Museveni said gays deserve to be punished severely because homosexuality is ‘‘criminal and it is . . . cruel.’’
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