KAMPALA, UGANDA — (08-08-22) — Ugandan officials on Friday announced the banning of a prominent LGBT rights group. A huge setback for LGBTQ community in a country that still suffers from gay bashings, hate crimes and murder due to one’s sexual orientation.
LGBT Rights Group, Sexual Minorities Uganda (Smug), was ordered to shut down with “immediate effect” for not registering properly with authorities. The LGBT rights group said the order by the government was a “clear witch hunt” by officials against LGBT Ugandans.
“Frank Mugisha, director of Smug, said the suspension was ‘a clear witch-hunt rooted in systematic homophobia’
Frank Mugisha, director of Smug-The Guardian Photo-2022
To this day Gay relationships are illegal in Uganda, where they can be punished by up to life in prison for committing “unnatural offences.”
On Friday Ugandan officials announced they were halting Smug’s operations that have been operating since its founding in 2004, because they had failed to register its name with the National Bureau for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) properly.
The issue government officials say, stems from Smug’s name itself – ‘Sexual Minorities Uganda’.
In a statement released by the NGO Bureau on Friday, they acknowledged that Smug had attempted to register with authorities in 2012, but that the application had been rejected because Smug’s full name was considered “undesirable.”
Article by: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer
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