US imposes visa restrictions for some Ugandans following adoption of anti-gay regulation

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – Washington on Friday introduced it’s imposing visa restrictions for Ugandans it accuses of “undermining the democratic process” in Uganda after the enactment of an anti-gay regulation within the East African nation.

An announcement from the State Department didn’t identify any focused people.

It stated the U.S. will think about different doable actions “to promote accountability for Ugandan officials and other individuals responsible for, or complicit in, undermining the democratic process in Uganda, abusing human rights, including those of LGBTQI+ persons, or engaging in corrupt practices.”

Uganda’s new regulation, adopted final month, punishes homosexuality, together with with the loss of life penalty in some instances. The laws has been extensively condemned by rights activists and others overseas, but it surely has extensive assist in Uganda, together with amongst non secular leaders and lawmakers.

LGBTQ rights campaigners notice homosexuality already was unlawful in Uganda underneath a colonial-era regulation criminalizing sexual exercise “against the order of nature.” The punishment for that offense is life imprisonment.