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After facing intense international reaction and promises from Western nations to cut financial aid to Uganda, Uganda's Minister Buturo said on 9 December 2009 that Uganda will revise the bill to drop the death penalty and substitute life imprisonment for gay people with multiple offences.
Similarly to the 2009 death penalty for homosexuals’ bill, in May 2023, President Museveni passed a law stating that some same sex acts will be punishable by the death penalty. [25] This newly signed law makes the country one of the most dangerous in the world regarding the lives of members of the LBGT community, due to the severity of the ...
Two men in Uganda are facing separate charges of “aggravated homosexuality,” an offense punishable by death under the country’s controversial new anti-gay laws.
King Mwanga II of Buganda (ruled 1884–1888 and 1889–1897) kept many male and female servants with whom he had sexual relations.. There is widespread denial that homosexuality was practised before colonisation, and homosexuality is often considered "un-African" or "Western"; the promotion of LGBTQ rights is often viewed as a form of neocolonialism, the imposition of outside cultural values ...
A gay Ugandan couple cover themselves with a pride flag as they pose for a photograph in Uganda on March 25, 2023. Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni has signed into law tough new anti-gay ...
Kigula's attorneys joined with anti-death penalty activists active in challenging the death penalty in Africa and the Caribbean region in using Kigula's case to challenge Uganda's mandatory death penalty laws. At the time Kigula was selected to be the lead applicant for an appeal challenging Uganda's mandatory death penalty, there were 417 ...
Uganda's president has signed into law anti-gay legislation supported by many in this East African country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad. The version of the bill ...
The agony of Uganda's proposed anti-gay bill: "There is a lot of fear. I love my country so much, but our government keeps shocking us." Uganda may impose some of the world's strictest anti-gay ...