This section imposes an imprisonment term of 5 years on “Any person or group of persons who prints, publishes, utters or does any act which degrades, exposes to contempt, creates alienation, raises disaffection or promotes ill-feeling among or against any group or body of persons on account of tribe or ethnicity.” This Penal legalisation serves to reinforce the prohibitive character of Article 21(2) of the 1995 Constitution which prohibits discrimination against any person “on the grounds of sex, race, colour, ethnic origin, tribe, creed or religion or social or economic standing, public opinion or disability.” The practice of colour bar is a criminal offence under section 42A of the Uganda Penal Code Act. Under this Section of the Act, the Courts are empowered to punish the offence of sectarianism with a term of imprisonment not exceeding five years.
L'amendement en question prévoit une peine de cinq ans d'emprisonnement pour "toute personne ou tout groupe de personnes qui imprime, publie ou prononce toute sorte de propos ou accomplit tout acte susceptible d'avilir, de désigner au mépris, d'isoler des personnes, de susciter l'insatisfaction ou la malveillance dans ou contre tout groupe de personnes en raison de l'appartenance tribale ou ethnique.