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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Samuel Okiror in Kampala

Uganda MPs revive hardline anti-LGBTQ bill, calling homosexuality a ‘cancer’

Ugandan LGBTQ refugees pose in a protected section of Kakuma refugee camp in northwest Kenya, 2018.
Ugandan LGBTQ refugees pose in a protected section of Kakuma refugee camp in northwest Kenya, 2018. Photograph: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy

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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