Uganda passed legislation that compels life imprisonment for being LGBTQ and the death penalty for gay sex with a minor amid a widening crackdown on sexual minorities in the Christian-majority nation in East Africa.
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The law needs the assent of President Yoweri Museveni, the longtime Ugandan leader, before it comes into effect but is likely to run into trouble with Uganda’s Western donors who have previouslyover the issue. The country of nearly 50 million people relies on billions of dollars in foreign aid, especially for its health and infrastructure needs. But Museveni, who’s spent more than three decades in power, has not shied from taking on the West on the issue of homosexuality.
“The community has lived underground and people are not free to be who they are,” he said adding that this bill is not just a problem for the community” but for the entire human rights fraternity because it also criminalizes their work.”One young lawyer, who fled to Kenya after being outed by a newspaper in 2016, said the bill meant anyone could be accused and jailed.
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