UGANDA’S PARLIAMENT has approved a new version of an anti-LGBTQ bill, eliminating a clause that...
The country’s president Yoweri Museveni asked for amendments to the legislation in the face of strong international criticism from governments and human rights campaigners
UGANDA’S PARLIAMENT has approved a new version of an anti-LGBTQ bill, eliminating a clause that seemed to criminalize the act of identifying as LGBTQ. Under the newly proposed law, the offense of so-called “aggravated homosexuality,” which includes sexual relations involving individuals with HIV, minors, and other vulnerable groups, would be subject to the death penalty. Conviction for “attempted aggravated homosexuality” could result in a 14-year imprisonment, while the act of “attempted homosexuality” carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Homosexuality is presently considered illegal in the East African nation under a longstanding law inherited from the colonial era, which categorizes certain sexual acts as being “against the order of nature” and penalizes them with life imprisonment.
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