{"id":4615,"date":"2014-08-01T22:03:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T15:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2014-08-01T22:03:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T15:03:39","slug":"uganda-court-annuls-anti-homosexuality-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/uganda\/uganda-court-annuls-anti-homosexuality-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda court annuls anti-homosexuality law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s Constitutional Court has annulled tough anti-gay legislation signed into law in February.<\/p>\n<p>It ruled that the bill was passed by MPs in December without the requisite quorum and was therefore illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Homosexual acts were already illegal, but the new law allowed for life imprisonment for &#8220;aggravated homosexuality&#8221; and banned the &#8220;promotion of homosexuality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Several donors have cut aid to Uganda since the law was adopted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Uganda News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28605400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 News East Africa <a title=\"Uganda\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/uganda\/\">Uganda<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s Constitutional Court has annulled tough anti-gay legislation signed into law in February. It ruled that the bill was passed by MPs in December without the requisite quorum and was therefore illegal. Homosexual acts were already illegal, but the new law allowed for life imprisonment for &#8220;aggravated homosexuality&#8221; and banned the &#8220;promotion of homosexuality&#8221;. Several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[745],"tags":[258,256,3352,3350,3351,4695,257,3353,254,4707,2062],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uganda","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aggravated-homosexuality","tag-annulled-tough-anti-gay-legislation","tag-anti-gay-legislation","tag-east-africa","tag-news","tag-promotion-of-homosexuality","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uganda","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}