Uganda arrests 16 LGBT activists for gay sex.

Ugandan LGBT+ refugees who left their country because of anti-gay laws gather to celebrate International LGBTQI Refugee Day on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital Nairobi on June 27, 2019. (Photo: Nita Bhalla/Thomson Reuters Foundation)

Uganda said on Thursday it had arrested 16 LGBT+ activists on suspicion of gay sex – punishable with life in jail – in what campaigners called an escalating campaign against sexual minorities in the east African nation.

The 16 men, believed to be aged from…