Moment Ugandan MPs pass controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill

Members of parliament in Uganda have passed a bill that would make homosexual acts punishable by death, attracting strong condemnation from rights campaigners. Nearly all the 389 legislators voted on Tuesday for the anti-homosexuality bill that introduces capital and life imprisonment sentences for gay sex and ’recruitment, promotion and funding’ of same-sex ’activities’. The bill will now go to President Yoweri Museveni, who can veto it or sign it into law. But in a recent speech he appeared to express support for the bill. The bill marks the latest in a string of setbacks for LGBTQ rights in Africa, where homosexuality is illegal in most countries. Human rights campaigners have condemned the move to enact the harsh law, describing it as ’hate legislation’ Ugandan MPs pass bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality