3 août 2022 - Le gouvernement interdit aux minorités sexuelles d'Ouganda (SMUG) d'opérer, Ouganda

Following the unlawful arrest of two of Minorités sexuelles en Ouganda (SMUG)‘s staff members on 19 May 2022, SMUG was banned from operating as an organisation by Uganda’s National Bureau for Non-Governmental Organizations on 3 August 2022. The Bureau argued that its ban followed SMUG’s failure to register as an NGO, but, according to SMUG’s Co-Executive Director, Dr Frank Mugisha, the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) had refused to approve SMUG’s name as it was “undesirable and un-registrable” as a group advocating for LGBTQIA+ people. The banning of SMUG only weeks after the unlawful arrest of its staff points to further government harrassment of LGBTQIA+ rights groups in Uganda, a country with severely restrictive laws such as the Anti-Homosexuality Act. Dr Frank Mugisha called this ban

"une chasse aux sorcières évidente, ancrée dans une homophobie systématique, alimentée par des mouvements anti-homosexuels et anti-genre".

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