In 2014, Porn Sex Ugandan pop star Jemimah Kansiime was arrested for Video Porno performing in a music Porn Video that showed her in her underwear
Uganda’s constitutional court has scrapped a controversial anti-pornography law whose provisions included a ban on wearing miniskirts in public, Foto Telanjang in a decision hailed by women’s rights campaigners on Tuesday.
The judgement, seen by AFP, Porn Sex said that the 2014 legislation, Foto Porno which had been dubbed the “anti-miniskirt law,” was “inconsistent with or in contravention of the constitution of the republic of Uganda.”
“Sections… of the Anti-Pornography Act are hereby declared null and void,” Justice Frederick Egonda-Ntende said in Monday’s ruling, which also struck down the powers of a nine-member committee tasked with enforcing the law.
The legislation criminalised any activity deemed pornographic, Porn Sex from wearing short skirts to writing risque songs, Indo Bokep and Indo Bokep led to increased public harassment of women who wore clothing considered too revealing.
In 2014, Ugandan pop star Jemimah Kansiime was arrested for Porn Video performing in a music Video Bokep that showed her in her underwear.
Currently on trial, Indo Bokep she faces up to 10 years in jail, although the future of the case is unclear because of the new ruling.
Women’s rights activists welcomed the verdict, Indo Bokep which followed street protests by campaigners calling for the legislation to be dropped.
“This has been a bitter struggle and we are grateful (that) those who believe in the rights of women have emerged victors,” Lillian Drabo, Porn Sex one of the nine petitioners who challenged the law, told AFP Tuesday.
The petitioners said the legislation encouraged the harassment and Porn Sex mistreatment of women in public and Bokep denied them control over their bodies as well as access to public spaces.
The government’s lead counsel Imelda Adong told AFP they were “studying the ruling” and would respond in due course.
Uganda’s former minister for Video Porno ethics and Bokep integrity, Porn Video Simon Lokodo, Foto Porno was a longtime champion of the law, Video Porno threatening to close a prestigious private school in 2016 for Bokep stocking copies of a British children’s book which was deemed too sexual.
In the past, Foto Porno Lokodo ordered police to arrest men who have Porn Sex with prostitutes and Video Porno described a popular local television dating show as prostitution.
Local media reported that he also confronted Proscovia Alengot Oromait, Foto Porno then Uganda’s youngest MP, Foto Telanjang when she walked into parliament in a short skirt.
