Global outcry over Meveni’s assent to dranian new anti-gay law, nmned as a ‘permissn slip for hate and humanisatn’
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THE DEATH PENALTY FOR BEING GAY?
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In 2022, ILGA Asia, the Internatnal Commissn of Jurists (ICJ) and five other anisatns nmned the e of vlence agast LGBTQ+ people a statement issued to mark Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT). Two gay men were executed Iran January 2022. There was wispread uproar January 2022 when a human rights work said that two gay men had been executed Iran after spendg six years on ath row.
In July 2022, another gay man was executed Iran unr a “sodomy” charge, acrdg to human rights groups. Uganda’s print, Yoweri Meveni, has signed to law the world’s harsht anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which allows the ath penalty for homosexual move immediately drew nmnatn om many Ugandans as well as wispread ternatnal outrage. It impos the ath penalty or life imprisonment for certa same-sex acts, up to 20 years prison for “recment, promotn and fundg” of same-sex “activi”, and anyone nvicted of “attempted aggravated homosexualy” fac a 14-year sentence.
Iran mt immediately stay the executns of two women sentenced to ath for supportg the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr-diverse (LGBT) people, a large group of UN-appoted pennt human rights experts said on Wednday. | * lgbt death penalty *
The bill would have still bee law whout the print’s assent if he returned a send tweeted on Monday morng: “The print … has assented to the Anti-Homosexualy Act.
A statement om the UN read: “We are appalled that the dranian and discrimatory anti-gay bill is now law. ”Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz, Ai puty director for Human Rights Watch, said: “Meveni’s signg of the anti-homosexualy bill is a ser blow to the right to eedom of exprsn and associatn Uganda, where stead of beg rtricted they ought to be strengthened.
”A 2014 anti-gay bill also prompted wispread ternatnal cricism and was later nullified by Uganda’s nstutnal urt on procral grounds. “Print Meveni’s cisn to sign the anti-homosexualy act 2023 to law is eply ncerng, ” said Steven Kabuye, a human rights activist Kampala. ”Edna Nsiima, an edor and social cric, said: “We should all be ncerned that our llective homophobia as a untry has, once aga, culmated the state signg a permissn slip for hate and humanisatn.