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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Uproar as Uganda gets new anti-LGBT+ law including death penalty: ‘How many will die?’

AP

Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni has signed into law one of the harshest anti-LGBT+ bills in the world, which includes the death penalty in some cases, prompting public outcry and condemnation by rights activists.

Same-sex relations were already illegal in Uganda under a colonial-era law that claimed homosexual relations to be "against the order of nature".

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