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Related: About this forumUganda revives anti-gay bill but drops death penalty
Source: BBC
7 February 2012 Last updated at 17:57 GMT
Uganda revives anti-gay bill but drops death penalty
A Ugandan MP has revived a controversial anti-gay bill but dropped the provision for the death penalty for certain homosexual acts.
A BBC correspondent says MPs laughed, clapped and cried out: "Our bill, our bill," when its architect David Bahati reintroduced the draft legislation on Tuesday.
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill was shelved in 2011 after an international outcry.
It still increases the punishment to life in prison for homosexual offences.
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Uganda revives anti-gay bill but drops death penalty
A Ugandan MP has revived a controversial anti-gay bill but dropped the provision for the death penalty for certain homosexual acts.
A BBC correspondent says MPs laughed, clapped and cried out: "Our bill, our bill," when its architect David Bahati reintroduced the draft legislation on Tuesday.
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill was shelved in 2011 after an international outcry.
It still increases the punishment to life in prison for homosexual offences.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16928608
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Uganda revives anti-gay bill but drops death penalty (Original Post)
Eugene
Feb 2012
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)1. Time to review foreign aid to Uganda. Nt
MarkCharles
(2,261 posts)2. I guess we have to say it's progress, but...
you've got a long way to go, Uganda!
Fearless
(18,421 posts)3. Life is a prison for gays in Uganda.
Eugene
(61,899 posts)4. BBC: Uganda anti-gay bill 'not backed by government'
Source: BBC
9 February 2012 Last updated at 14:01 GMT
Uganda anti-gay bill 'not backed by government'
Uganda's government has defended its right to debate an anti-gay bill but says the draft legislation does not have official backing.
MP David Bahati this week retabled his bill after it was shelved following an international outcry.
The bill calls for life in prison for homosexual offences but Mr Bahati says the death penalty will be dropped.
The government urged foreign leaders to realise that cultural attitudes in Africa were "very different".
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Uganda anti-gay bill 'not backed by government'
Uganda's government has defended its right to debate an anti-gay bill but says the draft legislation does not have official backing.
MP David Bahati this week retabled his bill after it was shelved following an international outcry.
The bill calls for life in prison for homosexual offences but Mr Bahati says the death penalty will be dropped.
The government urged foreign leaders to realise that cultural attitudes in Africa were "very different".
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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16963339
yardwork
(61,619 posts)5. The old "cultural differences" excuse. The Nazis used that too. It was their culture, you see.