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A man is seen during the third Annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride celebrations in Entebbe, Uganda on Aug. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Rebecca Vassie, file)
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. Two men in Uganda are facing ...
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 ...
This Act came into force in 2023, [A] [2] making Uganda the only Christian-majority country to punish some types of consensual same-sex acts with the death penalty. [7] A similar law had been passed in 2013, but was in 2014 struck down as unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Uganda on legal technicalities. [8]
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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.
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Both men and women are criminalised under this law. The death penalty may be applicable to Muslims, for certain types of extramarital sex regardless of the gender of the participants. However, there is no evidence that the death penalty has been applied for consensual same-sex relations in private taking place between adults. [23] Somalia ...