The first man arrested under Uganda’s new Anti-Homosexuality Act is out on bail awaiting trial. Micheal (also known as Michael) Opolot was held for 350 days of pretrial detention until the Chief Magistrate’s Court in Soroti granted him release on cash bail on July 30 on a charge of “unnatural offense”. That charge was a different from the charge he faced when he was arrested last year. Opolot, 21, was arrested on Aug. 15, 2023, in the town of Soroti in northeastern Uganda, where he gathered with others to witness a visit by the Ugandan president’s son, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba.