The United States has revoked the visa of the speaker of the parliament, Hon. Anita Among, while the member of parliament, Asuman, is the first person to be sanctioned after the East African nation legalized the law against same-sex couples, according to the below TV report, as transl;ated.
https://www.facebook.com/azamtvtz/videos/727460059128715/?app=fbl
Translation:
Swahili-English (AZAM TV) Speaking to supporters in the grounds of the MP. After President Museven signed the bill. MP Asmani says speaker’s visa has been canceled with the confirmation of an email written by the US ambassador in Uganda, quoting the letter Asman said however the US has eliminated the chance to the speaker to resubmit the application. In another step, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, has sent Uganda’s law against same-sex love, claiming it is shameful and a violation of human rights in the country.
This comes after President Museven rejected the pressure of western countries and human rights organizations that wanted the bill not to be signed.
Member of Parliament Asman Who Presented the argument in parliament is welcomed on AzamTV: Journalist: How has the move to cancel the speaker’s visa been received??
MP Asman : We got that approval yesterday. The United States has a law, and it is his right if they want our speaker not to go in the U.S. IT’S OK. If they want to cancel visas, they should cancel the visas of members of parliament, starting with President Museven, for the same reason we set the law together without looking at which party’s member of parliament.
Journalist : the law against same-sex love has caused such a stir all over the world that the United States has decided to threaten to cancel even its grants against your nation, now how is the country planning to ensure that it cannot be shaken in managing its decisions??
MP Asman: Regarding the wording of aid, we are on the way to find friends from the Middle East or Arab worlds, we are telling President Museven to start negotiations with other countries and they must give us aid.
Journalist: how do you feel after you have taken the argument to the parliament and it won and it shook the world a lot and especially in the west?
MP Asmani: I say, our constitution here gives every parliament the right to bring any law. I see that we are doing our job. Now they want us to work for the cause of the United States and We want them to give us respect .
We respect them. WE ASK YOU TO RESPECT US WE ASK YOU TO RESPECT US WE ASK YOU TO RESPECT US WE ASK YOU TO RESPECT US
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Melanie’s Response to Asmani:
The shameful and degrading law licenses blackmail, assault, corrective rape, mob justice, the ongoing industrialization of police corruption – to arrest and pretend they are charging for BAIL WHEN ALL THE WHILE IT IS POCKETED AND EFFECTIVELY EXTORTION……. and what next – Murder? When do the visible killings begin? License has been stamped in RED INK by AMONG, PRESIDENT MUSEVENI AND MP ASUMAN BASALIRWA AND ATTORNEY GENERAL KIRYYOWA KIWANUKA
Where is the RESPECT for your own LGBTQI+ community? Your own citizens? People who love their country are being forced to flee because of an ill informed, ignorant, biased shameful, unjust, scapegoating unconstitutional law? This will be proved by your own people in your own courts. In the meantime international and global instruments are constructed to help citizens of other countries whose own governments turn on them the way you have done. The way HITLER did on the Jews.
The shameful and degrading law licenses blackmail, assault, corrective rape, mob justice, the ongoing industrialization of police corruption – to arrest and pretend they are charging for BAIL WHEN ALL THE WHILE IT IS POCKETED AND EFFECTIVELY EXTORTION……. and what next – Murder? When do the visible killings begin? License has been stamped in RED INK by AMONG, PRESIDENT MUSEVENI AND MP ASUMAN BASALIRWA AND ATTORNEY GENERAL KIRYYOWA KIWANUKA
Speaker Among’s behavior was extremely egregious during the sessions where the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, otherwise known as the Kill the Gays Bill of 2023 was passed through parliament. The manner in which gays were referred to was traumatic for even me to hear. I cannot imagine how it felt to our Ugandan LGBTQI+ family. The current filing where activists and community are petitioning the court for an injunction to stop the law, specifically refers to the Speakers’s bias as one of its founding grounds. See here. Among shut down the one and only opposition speaker, and rallied the other 99% into rip roaring hooligan cheers as the screamed and shouted what has expectedly served to be a call to more than mere law, but to abject violence by anyone who so chooses against Uganda’s LGBTQI community.
Melanie Nathan
Nathan@AfricanHRC.org
Country Conditions Expert Witness for Ugandan and other,
African LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum in America and globally.
O-blog-dee-o-blog-da 
are saudi officials banned from the US too?
look the anti-homosexuality act passed through the democratic processes which you espouse. this is the fundamental paradox of the open society project…democracy is a euphemism for populism.