Senior Ugandan official says draft legislation targeting homosexual acts is set to be introduced in the national assembly.
A bill proposing harsh penalties against gay sex is set to be introduced in Uganda's national assembly, according to a senior official who has expressed regret over the failure of an attempt years ago to punish homosexuals.
While Uganda's penal code"only criminalizes the act," the East African country needs legislation against"recruitment, promotion, exhibition" activities related to gay rights, he said. Gay rights leader Frank Mugisha told The Associated Press that activists will fight any effort to introduce legislation that violates the rights of LGBT people.
Lokodo, who has been accused of breaking up LGBT events, has long called for the introduction of tough new legislation after a panel of judges nullified an anti-gay law enacted by President Yoweri Museveni in 2014 amid international condemnation.
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