Two men have been arrested in Uganda for allegedly having gay sex


Anthony Oluku held in custody (Photo: YouTube)
Anthony Oluku held in custody (Photo: 
Maurice Okello, 22, and Anthony Oluku, 18, were arrested in the northern town of Oyam.
District Police Commander Najibu Waiswa told NTV Uganda that the teenager “sodomised” Mr Okello, a 22-year-old who has a wife and three-year-old child.
Commander Waiswa added: “The doctor proved beyond doubt that they have been practicing [sex] for long because they even had scars.”
Arrests of men suspected of being gay are common in Uganda, which is notorious for its tough laws against same-sex sexuality activity and LGBT freedom of expression.
 President Yoweri Museveni gave assent to a law further criminalizing same-sex sexual activity in Uganda earlier this year. The law calls for repeat offenders to be sentenced to 14 years in prison and makes it a criminal offense not to report someone for being gay.

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