Zohran Mamdani flashes a radiant smile in photo with Ugandan Bigwigs who pushed the law to put homosexuals in life for life

The precursor of mayor Zohran Mamdani made a radiant smile on a photo worthy of Tardif with a senior Ugandan official who pushed severe anti -LGBT policies – who included life for life for homosexuals.

Mamdani met Rebecca Kadaga in July during a breakdown in the campaign track – after winning the Democratic primary – which included a sumptuous celebration of his recent wedding in an isolated Ugandan compound belonging to his family.

“Delighted to meet Zohran Mamdhani (sic), mayor entering New York. Good luck in the next phase of the elections,” said Kadaga in a legend of a photo of her with a smiling Mamdani.

“Here with Zohran Mamdhani and Professor Mamdhani as Zohran returns to New York after her traditional marriage in Kampala,” she spoke in another photo of her, Mamdani and her father, professor of Columbia Mahmood Mamdani University.

Mamdani’s campaign was left on Sunday while the photos of the meeting were re-appropriate, because a spokesperson said that the socialist democratic candidate was “unconscious” of Kadaga’s widely signaled status as an anti-gay cross.

In 2012, Kadaga, then Parde, said that she adopted a draconian law imposing serious sanctions against the practice of homosexuals as a “Christmas gift” for supporters of the measure.

“The Ugandans want this law as a Christmas present. They asked for it and we will offer them this gift,” Kadaga said.

The president of the time, Barack Obama, called “odious” legislation.

Kadaha is the first Deputy Prime Minister since 2021, following a 10-year stay as a powerful parliamentary.

In 2024, the Ugandan government adopted a law that more criminalizes LGBT persons.

The anti-homosexuality law criminalized consensual conduct of the same sex with sanctions until life imprisonment, has attempted homosexual acts with sanctions of 14 years in prison for the first time.

The initial project provided for the death penalty for people found guilty of “aggravated homosexuality”, which includes repeated acts and intercourse with a person under 18, over 75, or a disabled person.

But capital punishment was withdrawn from legislation following international criticism in favor of life imprisonment.

Parliament adopted a similar anti-LGBT law in 2013 when Kadaga was the speaker. He was canceled in court because parliament did not have a quorum during the vote to adopt it.

The Mamdani camp said he did not know that Kadaga was “the architect” of the vicious anti-LGBT law in Uganda.

“Zohran Mamdani met the assistant Prime Minister while he was at Entebbe airport while waiting to climb his flight to New York. She asked to take a photo,” said Mamdani’s campaign spokesperson Dora Pekec.

“If he knew she was the architect of this horrible attack on Queer Ugandan, he would not have done it,” said Pekec. “Zohran’s belief in universal human rights extends to everyone, and he presented the most complete plan of any candidate to protect New Yorkers LGBTQ +.

“As mayor, he will continue his action and values ​​assessment to make it a city where the New Yorkers are dear, our Queer neighbors are celebrated, and each New Yorker can be the most complete version of themselves.”

Former governor Andrew Cuomo, who presents himself for the mayor as an independent against Mamdani, castigated his rival for clumsy photo – and torn him for the explanation.

“And as we have learned, if he smiles, he lies,” said Cuomo, who, as a governor, approved the law on gay marriage of the state and other pro-LGBT legislation.

He noted that the photo had been taken at the time of a mass shoot on Park Avenue in Manhattan who led to the death of an officer from the NYPD.

“Mamdani now claims that he did not know who she was. It is laughable,” Cuomo continued. “Kadaga’s crusade against the Ugandan LGBTQ community has been condemned worldwide for more than a decade. Any serious civil servant, in particular that of Uganda, would know exactly who it is. ”

Cuomo asked how a self -proclaimed progressive candidate for New York – the birthplace of the Gay Civil Rights movement in Stonewall – found himself “smiling next to one of the most notorious anti -LGBTQ personalities on the planet?”

And, he added: “How does he maintain double citizenship in a country that criminalizes people simply for whom they love?”

“New Yorkers deserve a mayor who stands in principle – not the one behind excuses. Zohran Mamdani has shown many times: duplicity,” said Cuomo.

Some gay activists have expressed the indignation that Mamdani warmly praised a gay hate.

Chris Lynn, co-founder of Stonewall Democratic Club, the first LGBT club in the city of the city of the city, did not buy Mamdani’s explanation that he did not know who was Kadaga.

“He is a liar or incredibly informed. Oh, go! No one thinks he is so badly informed,” said Lynn.

Other gay activists defended Mamdani, saying that he was an ardent defender of the LGBT community as a member of the State Assembly.

“I know Zohran. I take Zohran in the word,” said Allen Roskoff, Citywide Jim Owles Liberal Lgbt Democratic Club.

“Zohran was a friend of the LGBT community. Zohran supported each element of pro-LGBT legislation and was one of our most articulated spokespersons in the state legislature,” he said.

The Ugandan authorities have perceived generalized discrimination and violence against residents and supporters of the LGBT in the two years who followed the Act on the Act respecting the rights of civil rights in a cinging report published in May.

“Over the past two years, LGBT Ugandans have undergone a range of abuses due to the government’s voluntary decision to legislate against them,” said Oryem Nyeko, researcher in main Africa at Human Rights Watch.

Ugandan officials have spread public disinformation and hatred against LGBT persons, leading to an increase in attacks and harassment against LGBT residents and rights defense groups, according to the report.

“The time of the meeting with Kadaga, a experienced politician with large -scale roles history, notably the president of the Parliament, suggests an effort to strengthen transatlantic links or obtain support before the offer of the mayor of Zohran,” said the Watchanda.com group.

“For Uganda, Zohran’s visits and family ties symbolize a bridge between the heritage of East Africa and Western policy, potentially influencing the commitment of the diaspora.

Mamdani faces Cuomo and the Republican Curtis Sliwa during the general elections on November 4 after beating Cuomo and several other candidates in a primary of Democratic Party with a crowded rank in June.

The current mayor Eric Adams abandoned the primary, then led an independent campaign that he finished last month among the dismissed election numbers and deflating the donations.