A Crackdown on Gay Rights Is Codified
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Last month, Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, signed into law one of the harshest pieces of anti-gay legislation in the world.
Homosexuality was already illegal in Uganda, a conservative East African nation, but the new law calls for more stringent punishments: Ugandans now face life imprisonment for engaging in gay sex.
Anyone who tries to have same-sex relations could be liable for up to ten years in prison. Under the law, those convicted of “aggravated homosexuality,” defined in part as acts of same-sex relations with children or disabled people, or those carried out under threat, would receive the death penalty.
