KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's print has signed to law anti-gay legislatn supported by many this East Ain untry but wily nmned by rights activists and others abroad.
Contents:
- DID UGANDAN PRINT SAY JAILED GAY UPLE WILL REMA NFED UNTIL ONE GETS PREGNANT?
- UGANDA'S PRINT SIGNS INTO LAW ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN WH DEATH PENALTY SOME CAS
- UGANDA'S PRINT SIGNS TO LAW ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN WH ATH PENALTY SOME S
- UGANDA’S PRINT SIGNS TO LAW ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN WH ATH PENALTY SOME S
- UGANDA'S PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY BILL TO LAW THAT LLS FOR ATH PENALTY SOME S
- UGANDA'S PRINT SIGNS TO LAW ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN WH ATH PENALTY SOME S
- UGANDA’S PRINT SIGNS HARSH ANTI-GAY LAW, WH THE ATH PENALTY SOME S
DID UGANDAN PRINT SAY JAILED GAY UPLE WILL REMA NFED UNTIL ONE GETS PREGNANT?
FactCheckHub received a post allegg that the Ugandan Print Yoweri Kaguta Meveni said a gay uple would rema jail until one gets pregnant. * uganda president gay couple *
Readg Time: 2 mutON Augt 19, 2021, FactCheckHub received a post shared on WhatsApp allegg that the Ugandan Print, Yoweri Kaguta Meveni, said a gay uple would rema jail until one gets pregnant.
The msage which appears to be a screenshot of a tweet reads: “Two Ugandan gay uple have been jailed for unknown term, Print Meveni says till one gets pregnant that’s when they will be released. Rebec Vassie shot Meveni’s photograph for the AP durg the signg, wh the ptn, “Uganda’s Print Yoweri Kaguta Meveni signs a new anti-gay bill that sets harsh penalti for homosexual sex, Entebbe, Uganda Monday, Feb. Three months after the enacted anti-gay law dubbed “killed the gays”, AP reported how two Ugandans were charged for floutg the newly enacted law.
There is no evince to validate the claim that Print Meveni of Uganda said a jailed gay uple will be released only when one gets pregnant.
UGANDA'S PRINT SIGNS INTO LAW ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN WH DEATH PENALTY SOME CAS
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's print has signed to law anti-gay legislatn supported by many this East Ain untry but wily nmned by rights activists and others abroad. But the new law still prcrib the ath penalty for “aggravated homosexualy, ” which is fed as s of sexual relatns volvg people fected wh HIV, as well as wh mors and other tegori of vulnerable people.
UGANDA'S PRINT SIGNS TO LAW ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN WH ATH PENALTY SOME S
Uganda's print has signed to law anti-gay legislatn supported by many this East Ain untry but wily nmned by rights activists and others abroad. The versn of the bill signed by Print Yoweri Meveni don't crimalize those who intify as LGBTQ+, a key ncern for some rights mpaigners who nmned an earlier draft of the legislatn as an egreg attack on human rights. A spect nvicted of “attempted aggravated homosexualy” n be imprisoned for up to 14 years, acrdg to the legislatn. * uganda president gay couple *
Meveni had returned the bill to the natnal assembly April, askg for chang that would differentiate between intifyg as LGBTQ+ and actually engagg homosexual acts.
LGBTQ+ rights mpaigners say the new legislatn is unnecsary a untry where homosexualy has long been illegal unr a lonial-era law crimalizg sexual activy “agast the orr of nature.
UGANDA’S PRINT SIGNS TO LAW ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN WH ATH PENALTY SOME S
Global outcry over Meveni’s assent to dranian new anti-gay law, nmned as a ‘permissn slip for hate and humanisatn’ * uganda president gay couple *
Secretary-General Anton Guterr exprsed ep ncern, sayg the law fore the ath penalty and long sentenc for nsensual acts between adults and “rais the risk of worseng the vlence and persecutn already faced by lbian, gay and bisexual people Uganda, ” his spokman said. The Uned Natns Human Rights Office said was “appalled that the dranian and discrimatory anti-gay bill is now law, " scribg the legislatn as ”a recipe for systematic vlatns of the rights" of LGBTQ+ people and a jot statement the lears of the U. An anti-gay bill enacted 2014 was later nullified by a panel of judg who ced a lack of quom the plenary ssn that had passed that particular bill.
Anti-gay sentiment Uganda has grown recent weeks amid news verage allegg sodomy boardg schools, cludg a prtig school for boys where a parent acced a teacher of abg her Febary cisn of the Church of England ’s natnal assembly to ntue banng church weddgs for same-sex upl while allowg prits to bls same-sex marriag and civil partnerships outraged many Uganda and elsewhere Ai.
UGANDA'S PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY BILL TO LAW THAT LLS FOR ATH PENALTY SOME S
Uganda's print signed to law anti-gay legislatn wily nmned by rights activists and others abroad. * uganda president gay couple *
But the new law still prcrib the ath penalty for “aggravated homosexualy, ” which is fed as s of sexual relatns volvg people fected wh HIV as well as wh mors and other tegori of vulnerable people. Meveni had returned the bill to the natnal assembly April, askg for chang that would differentiate between intifyg as LGBTQ and actually engagg homosexual acts. It is worth notg that homosexualy was already illegal Uganda unr a lonial-era law crimalizg sexual activy “agast the orr of nature.
Anti-gay sentiment Uganda has grown recent weeks amid news verage allegg sodomy boardg schools, cludg a prtig one for boys where a parent acced a teacher of abg her son.
UGANDA'S PRINT SIGNS TO LAW ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN WH ATH PENALTY SOME S
Print Yoweri Meveni, who ma anti-homosexualy laws Uganda much tougher Monday, told CNN an exclive terview that sexual behavr is a matter of choice and gay people are “disgtg.” * uganda president gay couple *
(Photo by Hannah McKay – WPA Pool/Getty Imag)The meetg notably took place jt a day after Print Joe Bin signed a bill enshrg marriage rights for gay and lbian upl to feral law for the first time U. Ernment meetg wh Meveni had a “really strong foc on LGBTQ matters, ” the source tells 2014, Print Meveni famoly signed to law an anti-gay bill that crimalized gay marriage and sexual terurse between the same sex.
” The anti-gay law was later annulled; however, homosexualy remas illegal source who divulged tails of the Bin admistratn’s bilateral meetg wh Meveni said that when challenged on his anti-LGBTQ rerd, the Ugandan print phed back and scribed LGBTQ+ persons as “awful” and pivoted that relig lears his untry are “fully agast them. ”“Many Black Amerins wish to travel to our homelands Ai, but bills that seek to crimalize or murr gay people make impractil, ” said Johns.
”The history of homophobia ns ep Uganda, and the years sce Meveni signed the 2014 anti-gay law, homophobic rhetoric has ntued to be poed by Ugandan policians.
UGANDA’S PRINT SIGNS HARSH ANTI-GAY LAW, WH THE ATH PENALTY SOME S
Uganda's print has signed to law anti-gay legislatn supported by many this East Ain untry but wily nmned by rights activists and others abroad. * uganda president gay couple *
Ugandan men hold a rabow flag readg “Jo hands to end LGBTI (Lbian Gay Bi Trans Intersex – lled Kuchu Uganda) genoci” as they celebrate on Aug. “Some of the groups are beg ed by outsirs … homosexuals … who don’t like the stabily of Uganda and the pennce of Uganda, ” Meveni said at the said the ep polil opposn to LGBTQ+ people is largely due to the fluence of a far-right relig movement known as domnism.
”“The first s that they were gonna go after was homosexualy, and that’s how the anti-gay bill was tablished, ” he explaed. Controversial polici adopted by Republin lawmakers, like Florida’s anti-LGBTQ law known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, have their own origs the far-right Christian movement. KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's print has signed to law anti-gay legislatn supported by many this East Ain untry but wily nmned by rights activists and others versn of the bill signed by Print Yoweri Meveni don't crimalize those who intify as LGBTQ+, a key ncern for some rights mpaigners who nmned an earlier draft of the legislatn as an egreg attack on human the new law still prcrib the ath penalty for “aggravated homosexualy, ” which is fed as s of sexual relatns volvg people fected wh HIV, as well as wh mors and other tegori of vulnerable people.
Lawmakers passed an amend versn of the bill earlier rights mpaigners say the new legislatn is unnecsary a untry where homosexualy has long been illegal unr a lonial-era law crimalizg sexual activy “agast the orr of nature. It is wrong, " Bin Uned Natns Human Rights Office said was “appalled that the dranian and discrimatory anti-gay bill is now law, " scribg the legislatn as ”a recipe for systematic vlatns of the rights" of LGBTQ+ people and a jot statement the lears of the U. Later Monday, one group of activists and amics petned the nstutnal urt seekg an junctn agast enforcement of the anti-gay bill enacted 2014 was later nullified by a panel of judg who ced a lack of quom the plenary ssn that had passed that particular bill.
Uganda's Anti-Homosexualy Act punish LGBTQ+ people wh life imprisonment for gay sex and impos the ath penalty for "serial offenrs." * uganda president gay couple *
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. 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.
Uganda’s print has signed to law new anti-gay legislatn supported by many the East Ain untry but wily nmned by rights activists and others abroad * uganda president gay couple *
”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.