Uganda this week passed a bill that calls for openly gay members of the LGBTQ community to be punished with life imprisonment. President Biden led international condemnation, calling the new law 'the latest development in an alarming trend of human rights abuses and corruption in Uganda.'
“After the government passed the now-scrapped 2014 Anti-Homosexuality Act, Human Rights Watch research found that people faced a notable increase in arbitrary arrests, police abuse, extortion, loss of employment, discriminatory evictions by landlords and reduced access to health services because of their perceived sexual orientation or gender identity,” Budoo-Scholtz said.
The death penalty will be given to those convicted of “aggravated homosexuality,” meaning sexual acts with minors, or people with disabilities or HIV Those who attempt to advocate, celebrate or openly discuss anything LGBTQ-related will be given up to 20 years in prison for “promoting homosexuality”to 50,000 Ugandan shillings or up to six months in prisonWhat has the international community said?
Top U.S. government officials joined other world leaders in condemning the hardline laws enacted in Uganda. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Biden administration would consider implementing visa restrictions for Ugandan officials.
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Uganda's anti-LGBTQ law, one of the harshest in the world, explainedUganda this week passed a bill that calls for openly gay members of the LGBTQ community to be punished with life imprisonment, despite widespread opposition from world leaders and human rights activists. Here's what you need to know.
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As anti-gay sentiment grows, more LGBTQ+ people seek to flee UgandaFrightened LGBTQ+ Ugandans are searching for a way to escape a new law prescribing the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality.’ Homosexuality has long been illegal in Uganda under a colonial-era law criminalizing sexual activity ‘against the order of nature.’ The punishment for that offense is life imprisonment. The new law targets ‘aggravated homosexuality,’ which is defined as sexual relations involving people infected with HIV, as well as with minors and other categories of vulnerable people. A suspect convicted of ‘attempted aggravated homosexuality’ can be imprisoned for up to 14 years. And there’s a 20-year prison term for a suspect convicted of ‘promoting’ homosexuality, a broad category affecting everyone from journalists to rights activists.
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