The new law authorizes the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’, acts involving ‘serial offenders’
Uganda has given final approval to one of the world’s harshest anti-homosexuality laws, sparking a wave of global outrage and rising concern about the fate of LGBTQ activists and people with HIV in the East African country.
Uganda already has a law to criminalize homosexuality, but many of its politicians have been pushing for more than a decade to toughen the law. Christian evangelical leaders, including U.S. religious groups with Ugandan followers, have strongly supported the new law. An earlier attempt at a harsher law in 2014 was struck down by the Ugandan courts on a technicality.
Reports of violence and discrimination against LGBTQ Ugandans have increased since the law was first introduced in parliament, Mr. Biden said. “Innocent Ugandans now fear going to hospitals, clinics or other establishments to receive life-saving medical care. Some have been evicted from their homes or fired from their jobs.”
Under the new law, Ugandans – including health workers – can be jailed for up to five years if they fail to tell the police about any “reasonable suspicion” that someone “intends to commit the offence of homosexuality.” Despite the widespread criticism from global leaders and Ugandan activists, the anti-homosexuality law was overwhelmingly approved in two parliamentary votes over the past two months and was celebrated by Ugandan church groups on Monday. After the first vote, the legislation was slightly amended, removing a clause that made it illegal merely to identify as LGBTQ, but most of its provisions were retained.
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