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Persons in same-sex relationships in Uganda now face the possibility of life imprisonment after President Yoweri Museveni signed into law the 2023 anti-homosexuality bill. Human rights organizations say the signing of the bill has opened the floodgates for the persecution of sexual minorities. This comes even as the US has retaliated by revoking Uganda’s speaker of parliament Anita Among's visa,
LGBTQs in Uganda facing the possibilty of life imprisonment
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