Uganda targeting LGBTQ community with hatred and violence: HRW
Al JazeeraMAY 11
Report: Uganda's Anti-Gay Law Sparks Widespread LGBTQ Persecution
Above: LGBT+ campaigners attend a protest opposite Westminster Abbey on March 11, 2024 in London, United Kingdom. Image copyright: Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images
The Spin
Progressive narrative
For two years, Uganda’s LGBTQ community has endured a relentless storm of state-sanctioned hate — arrests, torture, blackmail, and silencing — simply for existing. Enshrining bigotry into law, the government has emboldened abusers and stripped citizens of safety, dignity, and voice. This is not justice, it is cruelty dressed as policy — an unforgivable assault on humanity itself.
Conservative narrative
Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act is not a tool of oppression but a sovereign shield — crafted to uphold the nation’s moral code, cultural identity, and public order. Though narrowly refined to respect core rights, the law stands as a defiant rejection of foreign coercion, defending Uganda’s values from external moral decay.