New anti-LGBTQ+ legal guidelines have been handed in Uganda, increasing on guidelines which already criminalised same-sex acts and carried a most penalty of life imprisonment.
The new anti-homosexuality regulation now makes “aggravated homosexuality” – which is outlined as sexual relations involving individuals contaminated with HIV, in addition to with these underneath 18, and different classes of weak individuals – punishable with jail sentences of as much as 14 years.
On the Sky News Daily, Kamali Melbourne speaks to Jay Mulucha, a human rights activist and government director of Fem Alliance Uganda, who tells us what it is wish to be LGBTQ+ in Uganda and to Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz, deputy director of the Africa division at Human Rights Watch, concerning the historical past of those legal guidelines.
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