- By Patience Atuhaire
- BBC News, Kampala
Watch: Cheers and applause as Uganda passes anti-gay bill
People who identify as gay in Uganda risk life in prison after parliament passed a new bill to crack down on homosexual activities.
It includes the death penalty for the abuse of children or vulnerable people.
A rights activist told the BBC the debate around the bill had led to fear of more attacks on gay people.
“There is a lot of blackmail. People are receiving calls that ‘if you don’t give me money, I will report that you are gay,'” they said.
The bill is one of the toughest pieces of anti-gay legislation in Africa.
Homosexual acts are already illegal in Uganda but this bill introduces many new criminal offences.
As well as making merely identifying as gay illegal for…
