{"id":7184,"date":"2026-02-16T07:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=7184"},"modified":"2026-02-16T07:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:03:46","slug":"update-in-case-of-man-facing-life-in-prison-for-having-sex-with-another-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/16\/update-in-case-of-man-facing-life-in-prison-for-having-sex-with-another-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Update in case of man facing life in prison for having sex with another man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Ugandan court has dropped the case against the first person charged with &#8220;aggravated homosexuality&#8221; under the country&#8217;s controversial 2023 anti-gay law. The defendant, who had been in custody since August 2023 and faced a potential death penalty, was released after a magistrate ruled he was of &#8220;unsound mind&#8221; following his long detention. The prosecution had previously amended his charge to &#8220;carnal knowledge against the order of nature,&#8221; an offense that carries life imprisonment under the national penal code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 3, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/africa\/uganda-gay-sex-death-penalty-b2912800.html\">independent.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ugandan court has dropped the case against the first person charged with &#8220;aggravated homosexuality&#8221; under the country&#8217;s controversial 2023 anti-gay law. The defendant, who had been in custody since August 2023 and faced a potential death penalty, was released after a magistrate ruled he was of &#8220;unsound mind&#8221; following his long detention. The prosecution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":7188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7373,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184\/revisions\/7373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}