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Buzzfeed reports:
Ugandan police interrupted the Mr. and Miss Pride Uganda pageant at Kampala’s Venom nightclub on Thursday night, detaining several well known LGBT activists for about three hours before releasing them without charge.
Around 20 to 25 people were arrested, those detained told BuzzFeed News after their release. That number included Pepe Julian Onziema and Frank Mugisha of Sexual Minorities Uganda, who both posted on their Twitter timelines that they were being placed under arrest at around 10:30 p.m. local time.
Those released reported violence from police in interviews with BuzzFeed News. “They were beating people … mostly the trans women,” Adebayo Katiiti Phiona, who won the title of Mr. Pride in 2015, told BuzzFeed News. “A police person even stepped on a trans woman.” Pepe Julian Onziema of Sexual Minorities Uganda told BuzzFeed News that police said the event was held without proper permission from police, a claim he emphatically denied.
Pride in uganda has been broken up by police. Making false claims of a gay wedding @nickopiyo @SMUG2004 @KashaJacqueline
— KuchuTimes (Q-Times) (@KuchuTimes) August 4, 2016
Police claiming unlawful assembly although pride organizers informed them before hand @KashaJacqueline @nickopiyo @SMUG2004
— KuchuTimes (Q-Times) (@KuchuTimes) August 4, 2016
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— KuchuTimes (Q-Times) (@KuchuTimes) August 4, 2016
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— KuchuTimes (Q-Times) (@KuchuTimes) August 4, 2016