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Uganda's ex-football manager convicted of sodomy

Xinhua, September 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

Court in Uganda on Tuesday convicted a former national football team manager Chris Mubiru of sodomy.

A magistrate in the capital Kampala ruled that evidence adduced in court by five prosecution witnesses had pinned Mubiru of the crime.

Sodomy is a crime according to Ugandan laws and if found guilty one faces a sentence of up to 18 years in prison.

Buganda Road Court Chief Magistrate, Flavia Nabakooza adjourned Mubiru's case to Sept. 18 for sentencing.

The country early last year enacted an anti-homosexuality law which allowed for life imprisonment for 'aggravated homosexuality' and banned the 'promotion of homosexuality'.

The country's Constitutional Court later in the year annulled the legislation saying it was passed by Parliament without the necessary quorum.

Several donors had already cut aid to Uganda saying the law was a violation of the rights of sexual minorities. Endit