A British man faces a court hearing in Uganda on Monday following the publication of images from his stolen laptop of him having sex with another man.
Bernard Randall, 65, faces charge of trafficking obscene material. Randall has called the charges, which carry a prison sentence of up to two years, "nonsensical." Also charged is Ugandan Albert Cheptoyek, who faces charges of committing an act of gross indecency and up to seven years in prison.
Uganda has harsh anti-gay laws and the country received international attention after a lawmaker proposed a bill that would mandate the death penalty for some gay acts.
Jane Okuo Kajuga, spokeswoman for Uganda's Directorate of Public Prosecutions, said the charges against Randall have nothing to do with his sexual orientation.
“I’m completely innocent but I have no faith in the Ugandan judicial system,” he told AFP Saturday, looking drained from worry and lack of sleep on the patio of a modest house full of plants in a small town outside Kampala.
“They were very private. They were just for me,” Randall said, describing his horror at seeing personal photographs printed in the tabloid showing him having sex with a man in Morocco, several thousand kilometres (miles) from Uganda.
“If any trafficking was done, it was by the robbers who took the laptop, and the newspaper for printing them.”
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