Uganda’s parliament on Tuesday passed a law that criminalizes identifying as LGBTQ, handing authorities broad powers to target Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence. | Reuters
Violations under the law draw steep penalties including death for so called aggravated homosexuality and life in prison for gay sex. Aggravated homosexuality involves gay sex with people under 18 years old or when the perpetrator is HIV positive, among other categories, according to the law.
“Our creator God is happy what is happening… I support the bill to protect the future of our children,” said lawmaker David Bahati during debate on the bill. “This is about the sovereignty of our nation, nobody should blackmail us, nobody should intimidate us.”Museveni has not commented on the current proposal but he has long opposed LGBTQ rights and signed an anti-LGBTQ law in 2013 that Western countries condemned before a domestic court struck it down on procedural grounds.
In recent weeks Uganda authorities have cracked down on LGBTQ individuals after religious leaders and politicians alleged students were being recruited into homosexuality in schools. This month, authorities arrested a secondary school teacher in the eastern Ugandan district of Jinja over accusations of “grooming of young girls into unnatural sex practices.”The police said on Monday they had arrested six people accused of running a network that was “actively involved in the grooming of young boys into acts of sodomy.”
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