Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed into law a controversial anti-gay bill, introducing draconian measures against homosexuality that have been described as among the world's harshest. ManilaBulletin
Museveni "has assented to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023. It now becomes the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023," a statement posted on the presidency's official Twitter account said.
The amended version said that identifying as gay would not be criminalised but "engaging in acts of homosexuality" would be an offence punishable with life imprisonment. Discussion of the bill in parliament was laced with homophobic slurs, and Museveni himself referred to gay people as "deviants.""As Parliament of Uganda, we have heeded the concerns our people and legislated to protect the sanctity of family," said one of the bill's strongest proponents and Uganda's speaker of parliament, Anita Among, in a statement.
Instead, the reporting requirement pertained only to suspected sexual offences against children and vulnerable people, with the penalty raised to five years in jail.
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