Uganda gay activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera hailed

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Ugandan gay activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera has been given the prestigious Martin Ennals rights award.



The 10 organisations which make up the award jury said she was courageous and faced harassment because of her work.



Homosexual acts are illegal in Uganda, and can be punished by long jail terms.



In January, her colleague David Kato was murdered not long after suing a paper that outed them both as gay. Police denied the killing was because of his sexuality.



Three months before the murder, Uganda's Rolling Stone newspaper published the photographs of several people it said were gay, including activist Mr Kato, with the headline Hang them.



The name of Ms Nabagesera, the founder of gay rights organisation Freedom and Roam Uganda, also appeared on the list.

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