{{Police in Uganda have prevented women from marching through the streets of the capital, Kampala, in protest at new laws banning the wearing of miniskirts.}}
Instead about 200 women, some dressed in short skirts, gathered outside the national theatre to voice their anger.
There have been several incidents over the past week of women in short skirts being publicly harassed and assaulted.
This follows the signing by the president of the anti-pornography bill, which bans “indecent” dressing.
Proposing the legislation last year, Uganda’s Ethics and Integrity Minister Simon Lokodo said that women who wore “anything above the knee” should be arrested.
Uganda is a socially conservative country – and this week President Yoweri Museveni enacted a bill toughening penalties for gay people in the country.
Dubbed “the miniskirt law” by Uganda’s media, the anti-pornography legislation was raised in parliament on Tuesday after the cases of harassment – some women have been publicly undressed for wearing miniskirts.
The prime minister and attorney general told MPs that the cabinet would recall the law to review it.
The police have issued a statement condemning those who engaged in “mob… undressing”.
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