Uganda MPs revive hardline anti-LGBTQ bill, calling homosexuality a ‘cancer’
by Samuel Okiror in Kampala from World news | The Guardian on (#69BMT)
In a country where gay sex is already punishable by life in prison, campaigners have condemned proposed new law as demonisation'
MPs in Uganda have reintroduced a controversial anti-LGBTQ bill, with one describing homosexuality as a cancer", attracting strong condemnation from rights campaigners.
Asuman Basalirwa, an opposition MP, made the remark as he tabled the draft law [pdf] which seeks to punish gay sex and the promotion or recognition of such relations".
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