Uganda Scraps Anti-porn apos;miniskirt apos; Law
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Uganda's constitutional court has scrapped a controversial anti-pornography law whose provisions included a ban on wearing Porn Sex miniskirts in public, Foto Porno Porn Video in a decision hailed by women's rights campaigners on Tuesday.
The judgement, Indo Bokep seen by AFP, Video Bokep said that the 2014 legislation, Video Bokep 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 Video Bokep Egonda-Ntende said in Monday's ruling, Indo Bokep which also struck down the powers Foto Porno of a nine-member committee tasked with enforcing the law.
The legislation criminalised any activity deemed pornographic, Porn Video from wearing short skirts to writing risque songs, Foto Porno and Indo Bokep led to increased public harassment of women who wore clothing considered too Indo Bokep revealing.
In 2014, Foto Telanjang Ugandan pop star Jemimah Kansiime was arrested for Indo Bokep performing in a music Video Porno that showed her in her underwear.
Currently on trial, Video Porno she faces up to 10 years in jail, Porn Video although the future of the case is unclear because of Porn Video the new ruling.
Women's rights activists welcomed the verdict, Foto Telanjang which followed street protests by campaigners calling for Porn Video 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, Foto Telanjang one of the nine petitioners who challenged the law, Video Porno told AFP Tuesday.
The petitioners said the legislation encouraged the harassment and Foto Telanjang mistreatment of women in public and Foto Porno 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 Porn Sex would respond in Porn Sex due course.
Uganda's former minister for Indo Bokep ethics and Bokep integrity, Porn Video Simon Lokodo, Video Bokep was Bokep a longtime champion of the law, Porn Video threatening to close a prestigious private school in 2016 for Porn Sex stocking copies of a British Indo Bokep Video Porno children's book which was deemed too sexual.
In the past, Bokep Lokodo ordered police to arrest men who Porn Sex have Porn Sex with prostitutes and Porn Sex described a popular local television dating show as prostitution.
Local media reported that he also confronted Proscovia Alengot Oromait, Foto Telanjang then Porn Video Uganda's youngest MP, Foto Telanjang when she walked into parliament in a short skirt.
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