LONDON PROTEST AGAINST UGANDAN ANTI-GAY BILL
International by HOMOVISION on December 7, 2009 at 11:44 am
Outrage is supporting a protest this Thursday 10th December against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill that’s currently being debated in the Ugandan parliament. The bill proposes the death penalty for agrreavated and serial homosexual acts and extends the existing penalty of life imprisonment for anal sex to all other same-sex behaviour, including the mere touching of another person with the intent to have gay relations.
That means if you lived in Uganda you’d be one of the first people to go.
Outrage!’s Peter Tatchell adds: “Membership of LGBT organisations and funding for them, advocacy of LGBT human rights and the provision of condoms or safer sex advice to LGBT people will result in a minimum sentence of five years and a maximum of seven years for “promoting” homosexuality. A person in authority who fails to report violators to the police within 24 hours will incur three years behind bars.”
“Astonishingly, the new legislation has an extra-territorial jurisdiction. It will also apply to Ugandans who commit these ‘crimes’ while living abroad, in countries where such behaviour is not a criminal offence. Violators overseas will be subjected to extradition, trial and punishment in Uganda,” he said.
Protest takes place this Thursday 10th December, 12noon- 2pm, Ugandan High Commission, 58-59 Trafalger Square, Charing Cross.
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