In 2007, members of CPT's Great Lakes team met with David Kato and two of his colleagues at Sexual Minorities Uganda.  His murder on 26 January 2011 is a significant loss to the LGBT community in East Africa.  Kato was an outspoken activist and faced numerous threats to his life, the most recent after he successfully sued a Kampala newspaper for publishing his (and others’) photos with a message that they should be hanged.  His funeral took place on 28 January.  An obituary is available here.