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Ugandan man charged with ‘aggravated homosexuality’ could face death penalty

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A 20-year-old man in Uganda who has been charged with “aggravated homosexuality” could face the death penalty. Reuters reported authorities on Aug.

18 charged the man after he “performed unlawful sexual intercourse” with a 41-year-old man. A spokesperson for Uganda’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions during an interview with Reuters confirmed the charge is a “capital offense.” President Yoweri Museveni on May 29 signed the country’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, which contains the death penalty provision for “aggravated homosexuality.” The U.S.

in June imposed visa restrictions on Ugandan officials. The World Bank Group earlier this month announced the suspension of new loans to Uganda.

Museveni, for his part, in an open letter to Ugandans cites the “provocations by the World Bank and the thoughtless homosexual lobby” and said they “should not provoke us into being, automatically, anti-Western.” Police in Buikwe, a town that is roughly 35 miles east of Kampala, the Ugandan capital, on Aug.

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