Ugandan lawmakers hastily passed the bill on Tuesday evening ordering harsh penalties for anyone who engages in same-sex activity.
KAMPALA - Amnesty International urged Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni Wednesday to reject a tough anti-gay bill passed by parliament, warning it was "a grave assault" on LGBTQ people.
Lawmakers amended significant portions of the original draft legislation with all but one speaking in favour of the bill. The discussion about the bill in parliament has been laced with homophobic language and Museveni himself last week referred to gay people as "these deviants". But since independence from Britain in 1962 there has never been a conviction for consensual same-sex activity.
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