{"id":11326,"date":"2011-11-14T15:06:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T20:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11326"},"modified":"2011-11-14T14:19:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T19:19:05","slug":"man-gets-30-years-in-prison-for-killing-ugandan-gay-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11326","title":{"rendered":"Man Gets 30 Years In Prison For Killing Ugandan Gay Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Ugandan man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the killing of a gay rights activist in Ugandan.<\/p>\n<p>A high court judge on Thursday handed down the sentence to 22-year-old <strong>Sidney Nsubuga Enoch<\/strong>, who admitted that he bludgeoned <strong>David Kato<\/strong> to death with a hammer in January.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kato&#8217;s<\/strong> slaying came only months after his picture was published in an anti-gay newspaper next to the words \u201cHang Them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enoch<\/strong> says he was provoked by <strong>Kato<\/strong>, who he claims made sexual advances toward him.<\/p>\n<p>Homophobia in Uganda has been on the raise, in which gay rights activists have blamed on evangelical preachers. Also, in May of 2011, the Ugandan parliament adjourned without discussing a controversial bill that proposed the death penalty for some homosexual acts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ugandan man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the killing of a gay rights activist in Ugandan. A high court judge on Thursday handed down the sentence to 22-year-old Sidney Nsubuga Enoch, who admitted that he bludgeoned David Kato to death with a hammer in January. Kato&#8217;s slaying came only months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}