‘We can’t even walk through the streets’: women arrested for kissing in public on life under Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ+ law
Wendy Faith and Alesi Diana Denise freed after five months in prison over allegations of engaging in same-sex activity For five months, Wendy Faith and
Wendy Faith and Alesi Diana Denise freed after five months in prison over allegations of engaging in same-sex activity For five months, Wendy Faith and Alesi Diana Denise shared a small prison cell knowing that there was a possibility they might spend the rest of their lives there.
Accused of engaging in same-sex activity, an offence under Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ+ laws, the two young women faced a life sentence. Faith, a 22-year-old musician known
as Torrero Bae, and Denise, 21, say they have been left “traumatised” by their arrest and detention, an ordeal that began with a police raid
on their single rented room in Arua City, north-west Uganda, in February. Continue reading...
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