for "aggravated homosexuality".The law in question defines "aggravated homosexuality" as cases of homosexual relations involving a minor and other categories of vulnerable people, or when the perpetrator is infected with HIV.
The court in the Ugandan capital Kampala rejected the petitioners' request to quash the law despite widespread condemnation from rights groups and others abroad.
President Yoweri Museveni
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President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote...signed the bill into law in May last year.
The law is supported by many in the East African country, where some see it as behaviour imported from abroad and not a sexual orientation.