Uganda's president signs into law tough anti-gay legislation with death penalty in some cases
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Uganda’s president has signed into law tough new anti-gay legislation supported by many in the East African country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad. The version of the bill signed by President Yoweri Museveni doesn’t criminalize those who identify as LGBTQ, a key concern f…
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Uganda’s president has signed into law tough new anti-gay legislation supported by many in the East African country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad. The version of the bill signed by President Yoweri Museveni doesn’t criminalize those who identify as LGBTQ, a key concern f…
Uganda announced Monday that President Yoweri Museveni had signed into law draconian new measures against homosexuality described as among the world's harshest, prompting condemnation from human rights…
Uganda's president has signed into law anti-gay legislation supported by many in this East African country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad.
The United Nations, the U.S. and other Western donors had urged President Yoweri Museveni not to sign the bill, which allows the death penalty for some same-sex relations and lengthy prison terms for activities that could be seen as promoting homosexuality.
By David McKenzie and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has signed some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world, the speaker of parliament said, defying international pressure.
The new law prescribes the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality," which is defined as cases of sexual relations involving people infected with HIV as well as with minors and other categories of vulnerable people.
President Joe Biden called the enactment of Uganda’s anti-homosexuality act “a tragic violation of human rights.” Uganda has been threatening to pass this bill, dubbed the “kill the gays” law, for years. Biden called for the law’s “immediate repeal.
The version of the bill signed by President Yoweri Museveni doesn't criminalize those who identify as LGBTQ, a key concern for campaigners who condemned an earlier draft of the legislation as an egregious attack on human rights
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