Bill imposes the death penalty for so-called aggravated homosexuality
“If the speaker has announced, then that’s true he has signed,” Mr Museveni’s spokesperson Faruk Kirunda told Reuters.
When Mr Museveni signed a less restrictive anti-LGBTQ law in 2014, Western governments suspended some aid, imposed visa restrictions and curtailed security co-operation.Last month, the US government said it was assessing the implications of the new legislation for activities in Uganda under its flagship HIV/AIDS programme.
Passage of the bill in March sent fear rippling through Uganda's LGBTQ community. Many closed down social media accounts and fled their homes for safe houses.“The Ugandan president has today legalised state-sponsored homophobia and transphobia,” said Clare Byarugaba, a Ugandan rights activist. “It's a very dark and sad day for the LGBTIQ community, our allies and all of Uganda.
The amended version stipulated that merely identifying as LGBTQ is not a crime and revised a measure that obliged people to report homosexual activity to only require reporting when a child is involved.
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