Less than four months on from the Anti-Homosexuality Act being signed in Uganda, gay and trans people are starving, homeless and facing increasing persecution as violence, arrests and evictions treble.
In May the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the bill, described by the UN as "among the worst of its kind in the world", to outlaw all forms of LGBT+ expression.
Yet ITV News has now heard reports of torture, starvation and beatings as Ugandan LGBT+ people say they are "on the run in their own country" and being forced into hiding.
But with momentum already gathering for similarly oppressive laws in neighbouring Kenya, the torture and mistreatment in Uganda may well only be the beginning of the increasing persecution of LGBT+ people across Africa.
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