A Ugandan judge responsible for striking down an “illegally passed” anti-gay Ugandan law has revealed she has received death threats.
In August, the country’s Constitutional Court struck down the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill which called for repeat offenders to be sentenced to 14 years in prison and made it a criminal offence not to report someone for being gay.
Justice Solomy Bossa Balungi, who was one of the five justices of the court who unanimously annulled the law, found that the speaker of Parliament acted illegally by moving ahead with a vote on the law despite at least three lawmakers objecting to a lack of quorum.
Speaking on Monday during the Judicial Symposium at Chobe Safari Lodge, she said: “We have received a lot of community backlash for the annulment of the anti-gay law.”
On social media, the judge received death threats such as “Die fat dike [sic]“, and was told she would be “punished by God.”
Justice Bossa added: “We had not responded to them since our judgement but the same is in black and white, and as judges, I think we did our job.
by Aaron Day
Source – PinkNews
