Uganda’s court of appeal has ruled that a leading LGBTIQ rights group cannot officially register as a company because its name is “undesirable” and goes against the country’s colonial-era ‘unnatural offences’ law.
The ruling upholds an earlier decision by the high court and could stop the organisation – Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) – from operating formally in the country.
SMUG says the judgment is another sign of the shrinking civic space for LGBTIQ people in the country.
