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The bill was signed into law by the President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni on 24 February 2014. [11] [12] On 1 August 2014, however, the Constitutional Court of Uganda ruled the act invalid on procedural grounds. [13] [14] [15]
The bill was signed into law by the President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni on 24 February 2014. [6] [7] On 1 August 2014, however, the Constitutional Court of Uganda ruled the act invalid on procedural grounds. [8] [9] [10] The act would have broadened the criminalisation of same-sex relations in Uganda domestically.
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 ...
The draft law prescribed the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuals" (definition includes those who are convicted of homosexuality more than once and those who engage in homosexual sex with a person older than 75 or with a disabled person) and up to 20 years in prison for "promoters" of homosexuality. [35] On 21 April, President Museveni ...
The Anti-Homosexuality Act, which was passed by parliament in Kampala in April, was signed into law on Monday by President Yoweri Museveni despite widespread opposition from world leaders and ...
The Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni in May, is one of the world's harshest anti-gay laws and punishes some same-sex acts with the death penalty ...
In February of 2014, despite the rejection of the previous bill 5 years earlier, President Yoweri Museveni passed the ‘Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act’. The act made it so that it was illegal for two people of the same sex to have sexual relations. Under this new law, anyone caught partaking in such acts would be punished by life imprisonment.
A 20-year-old man has become the first Ugandan to be charged with "aggravated homosexuality", an offence punishable by death under the country's recently enacted anti-gay law, prosecutors and his ...