KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities have charged a person with aggravated homosexuality, which carries a doable loss of life penalty, within the first use of the cost because the enactment in May of an anti-gay legislation that has been condemned by critics as draconian.

The legislation has widespread assist in Uganda however has drawn strain from overseas on Ugandan officers to repeal the measure.

The World Bank earlier this month introduced a choice to not contemplate new loans to Uganda due to the legislation, drawing an indignant response from President Yoweri Museveni.

The suspect is recognized as a 20-year-old “peasant” within the jap district of Soroti who was charged on August 18 with having illegal sexual activity with a 41-year-old man, in accordance with the charging doc issued by police within the Soroti Central Division.

Aggravated homosexuality is outlined as circumstances of same-sex sexual relations involving a minor and different classes of susceptible folks, or when the perpetrator is contaminated with HIV.

The charging doc doesn’t make clear the annoying issue within the case, or say how the sufferer could be a part of a susceptible inhabitants.

It says the offence came about at a sports activities stadium in Soroti, however gives no different particulars.

No data was instantly obtainable on who may symbolize the defendant in court docket.

The laws has been condemned by rights teams and different campaigners.

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