Rompe Armarios: GAY PROTEST Fifty people ask consul of Uganda to stop gay death penalty.Barcelona 10.01.2013 .

GAY PROTEST Fifty people ask consul of Uganda to stop gay death penalty.Barcelona 10.01.2013 .

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GAY PROTEST Fifty people ask consul of Uganda to stop gay death penalty

Barcelona, Jan 10 (EFE). – Around fifty people gathered this afternoon in front of the Ugandan Consulate in Badalona (Barcelona), protesting against the country's parliament bill that intends to punish homosexuality with death penalty. The protest, called by the Comissió Unitària 28 de Juny, a platform that brings together several associations of LGBT groups, took place without any incident and included the reading of a statement against death penalty. Uganda’s honorary Consul in Barcelona, Santi Jiménez, met the protesters, who handed him a written statement asking the Ugandan government to call off the bill. They also handed him an institutional declaration written by the City of Barcelona against death penalty. Eugeni Rodríguez, spokesperson of the Front d’Alliberament Gai de Catalunya (FAGC) declared to news agency Efe that the Consul committed to delivering both documents to the Ugandan Ambassador to Spain, who is also the Ambassador to France, and to the Chairman of the Ugandan Parliament. The protest has been supported by members of political parties ICV-EUiA and CUP Badalona. EFE