'Kill the Gays' Bill Revived by Ugandan Government Would Impose Death Penalty on LGBTQ Communy

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• 'KILL THE GAYS' BILL REVIVED BY UGANDAN GOVERNMENT WOULD IMPOSE DEATH PENALTY ON LGBTQ COMMUNY
• UGANDAN PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY LAW THAT INCLUS DEATH PENALTY AS A PUNISHMENT
• UGANDA LAWMAKERS AMEND NTROVERSIAL ANTI-GAY LAW BUT ATH PENALTY FOR HIV POSIVE SEX REMAS

'KILL THE GAYS' BILL REVIVED BY UGANDAN GOVERNMENT WOULD IMPOSE DEATH PENALTY ON LGBTQ COMMUNY

The Ugandan ernment announced s plan to retroduce a bill that would crimalize homosexualy wh the ath bill—lloquially known as "Kill the Gays" Uganda—was nullified by the nstutnal urt 2014 on a technily, but the ernment said plans to rurrect the bill wh weeks. "Homosexualy is not natural to Ugandans, but there has been a massive recment by gay people schools, and pecially among the youth, where they are promotg the falsehood that people are born like that, " Ethics and Integry Mister Simon Lokodo told went on to say that the current penal law is "limed, " makg clear that anyone volved "promotn and recment" will be crimalized. "When the law was troduced last time, whipped up homophobic sentiment and hate crim, " said Onziema.

UGANDAN PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY LAW THAT INCLUS DEATH PENALTY AS A PUNISHMENT

Onziema said three gay men and one transgenr woman had been killed homophobic attacks Uganda this year.

In 2014, the Uned Stat rced aid to Uganda rponse to the first "Kill the Gays" bill, imposg visa rtrictns and ncellg ary exercis.

The World Bank, Swen, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands also spend or redirected November, the anti-gay remarks by a senr official Tanzania led to the natn's send biggt donor, Denmark, whholdg $10 ln aid. SummaryCompaniLaw punish 'aggravated homosexualy' wh athWispread nmnatn om WtLGBTQ activists vow urt challengeKAMPALA, May 29 (Rters) - Uganda's Print Yoweri Meveni signed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQ laws, cludg the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy", drawg Wtern nmnatn and riskg sanctns om aid relatns were already illegal Uganda, as more than 30 Ain untri, but the new law go stipulat pal punishment for "serial offenrs" agast the law and transmissn of a termal illns like HIV/AIDS through gay sex.

UGANDA LAWMAKERS AMEND NTROVERSIAL ANTI-GAY LAW BUT ATH PENALTY FOR HIV POSIVE SEX REMAS

It also cre a 20-year sentence for "promotg" homosexualy. "The Ugandan print has today legalised state-sponsored homophobia and transphobia, " said Clare Byagaba, a Ugandan rights Stat Print Joe Bin lled the move "a tragic vlatn" of human rights and said Washgton would evaluate the implitns of the law "on all aspects of U. The 78-year-old has lled homosexualy a "viatn om normal" and urged lawmakers to rist "imperialist" prsure.

Existg Ugandan law lls for a maximum 10-year sentence for tentnally transmtg HIV and do not apply when the person who ntracted the fectn was aware of their sexual partner's HIV ntrast, the new law mak no distctn between tentnal and untentnal transmissn and ntas no exceptn based on awarens of HIV amend versn of the bill, adopted earlier this month after Meveni returned to parliament, stipulated that merely intifyg as LGBTQ is not a crime and revised a measure that obliged people to report homosexual activy to only require reportg when a child is volved. A ls rtrictive 2014 anti-LGBTQ law was stck down by a Ugandan urt on procral grounds, after Wtern ernments had ially spend some aid, imposed visa rtrictns and curtailed secury 2009, a bill dubbed "kill the gays" for ially proposg executg homosexuals was troduced after a nference Kampala drew reprentativ om the Uned Stat cludg proment anti-gay evangelil Stt well as relig mpaigng, Ai's anti-LGBTQ attus also have their roots the lonial era, cludg an anti-sodomy sectn of Bra's penal . AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe legislatn is among the most rtrictive of s kd the world and was nmned by Wtern lears and the Uned Natns human rights Ugandan Parliament May durg the passage of an anti-gay bill.