ICC Note: Christians in Uganda face the hostility of certain Muslim civilians through constant threats and attacks. A 32- year-old man was threatened several times for his Christian faith and eventually hanged for being a “disgrace to Islam.” Twanza, a 25-year-old woman, was poisoned by her own family members after she and her husband became Christians. Even though Uganda’s laws respect the freedom of religion, Christians continue to suffer discrimination and persecution by some Muslims.

9/9/2016, Kenya (Morning Star News) – While Muslim villagers continue to persecute Christians in eastern Uganda, Islamists last month killed a Christian in the western part of the country, sources said.

The blood-stained body of a convert from Islam, 32-year-old Enoch Shaban, was found hanging from a tree in Mbarara District. An area resident in Kitebero Cell, Katete Ward, Nyamitanga Division said that on Aug. 10 at about 8 p.m. he heard Shaban shouting for help after another man said, “We have warned you several times of being a disgrace to our religion, and you have not taken seriously our warnings.”

A source in Mbarara told Morning Star News that Shaban had told him of area Muslims threatening to kill him.

“Two weeks before meeting his death, he had mentioned several messages on his phone warning him to recant the Christian faith and return to Islam,” the source said.

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