Ugandan prosecutors have withdrawn a case against two women arrested over allegations of same-sex conduct under the country’s controversial anti-homosexuality law.
Ugandan prosecutors said they have thrown out a case against two women arrested for kissing in public under an anti-gay law considered one of the harshest in the world.
Uganda's 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act imposes penalties of up to life imprisonment for consensual same-sex relations, while "aggravated homosexuality" is punishable by death.
The two women, both in their 20s, were arrested in February following a complaint from neighbours in the northwestern city of Arua.
Neighbours took photos of them, and they were suspected of "same-sex orgies", local police spokesperson Josephine Angucia told AFP at the time.
