Gay rights activists are calling on the international community to levy more pressure against the Ugandan government over its strict homosexuality law.
Ugandan gay rights activists asked the international community to mount more pressure on the government of Uganda to repeal an anti-gay law which the country's Constitutional Court refused to nullify on Wednesday. Activist Frank Mugisha said Tuesday’s ruling was 'wrong and deplorable.' 'This ruling should result in further restrictions to donor funding for Uganda — no donor should be funding anti-LGBTQ+ hate and human rights violations,' said Mugisha.
The court upheld a law that allows the death penalty for 'aggravated homosexuality,' and up to 14 years in prison for a suspect convicted of 'attempted aggravated homosexuality.' The offense of 'attempted homosexuality' is punishable by up to 10 years. President Yoweri Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act into law in May last year. It's supported by many in the East African country but widely condemned by rights groups and others abroad.
Homosexuality was already illegal in Uganda under a colonial-era law criminalizing sexual activity 'against the order of nature.' The punishment for that offense is life imprisonment.
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