{"id":35322,"date":"2023-03-31T11:26:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T08:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=35322"},"modified":"2023-03-31T11:26:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T08:26:51","slug":"kanungu-sodomy-king-remanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/31\/kanungu-sodomy-king-remanded\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanungu &#8216;Sodomy King&#8217; Remanded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 22-year-old man was on Thursday evening remanded to Kanungu government prison on allegations of homosexuality.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Davis Orikiriza, a businessman and resident of Katungu village, Eastern Ward, Kambuga town council, Kanungu district is allegedly to have had canal knowledge with a fellow man on March 22,2023.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Appearing before court, Orikiriza was charged with engaging in un natural offence (homosexuality) contrary to section 145 of the penal code act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He pleaded not guilty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter Muhendo, Kanungu District Resident State Attorney asked for an adjournment saying that investigations into the matter are ongoing.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Athananthious Mukobi, Kanungu Grade One Magistrate tasked Orikiriza to explain where he attained training in such an act from, but the suspect kept on refuting the accusations.&nbsp; Mukobi remanded him until April 6,2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ugandan parliament early March 2023 passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023 that criminalizes more Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer\u2013 LGBTQ activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under this new law, people who publicly declare that they belong to the LGBTQ community face between 2-10 years imprisonment for engaging in homosexuality, while&nbsp; aggravated homosexuality fetches the highest penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old man was on Thursday evening remanded to Kanungu government prison on allegations of homosexuality.&nbsp;&nbsp; Davis Orikiriza, a businessman and resident of Katungu village, Eastern Ward, Kambuga town council, Kanungu district is allegedly to have had canal knowledge with a fellow man on March 22,2023.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Appearing before court, Orikiriza was charged with engaging in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":15912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-35322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35323,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35322\/revisions\/35323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}