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Uganda’s president refuses to sign new hardline anti-gay bill

Uganda’s president refuses to sign new hardline anti-gay bill

Yoweri Museveni sends bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality back to parliament for unspecified changes

Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, has refused to sign into law a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill that imposes the death penalty for homosexuality, requesting that it be returned to parliament for reconsideration.

The decision was announced on Thursday after a meeting between the president and ruling party MPs who resolved to return the hardline bill to the national assembly “with proposals for its improvement”.

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