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Human Rights Watch reports:
A bill introduced in Uganda’s Parliament criminalizing same-sex conduct and sexual and gender identity, if adopted, would violate multiple fundamental rights, Human Rights Watch said today. Among others, such a law would violate the rights to freedom of expression and association privacy, equality, and nondiscrimination.
On March 9, 2023, Asuman Basalirwa, a member of parliament, introduced the 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Parliament. The bill is a revised and more egregious version of the 2014 Anti-Homosexuality Act, which reinforced existing prison sentences for same-sex conduct and outlawed the “promotion of homosexuality,” but was struck down by a court on procedural grounds.
“One of the most extreme features of this new bill is that it criminalizes people simply for being who they are as well as further infringing on the rights to privacy, and freedoms of expression and association that are already compromised in Uganda,” said Oryem Nyeko, Uganda researcher at Human Rights Watch,
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The bill calls for a ten-year prison sentence for publicly saying that you are anything but heterosexual. It also defines all same-sex acts as non-consensual.
Ugandan lawmakers are once again targeting sexual minorities. A new proposed law could make it illegal to even say that you are gay, transgender, or queer. pic.twitter.com/zKZTFsCeYj
— Human Rights Watch (@hrw) March 9, 2023
It is ridiculous for MP, Asuman Basalirwa @HonBasalirwaA to call himself a “human rights lawyer” yet he is the one pushing for the Anti-Gay Bill to deprive the LGBTIQ+ people in Uganda their rights.
Basalirwa doesn’t deserve to be a lawmaker. He is a threat to human rights.… https://t.co/EY0Knf2hsV pic.twitter.com/vZEZKy9GRQ
— Justice Hunter ???? (@HillaryTaylorVI) March 1, 2023