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On 20th December 2013 the Ugandan Parliament enacted a law titled “The Anti-Homosexuality Bill”. Proposed in late 2009 by MP David Bahati, the original draft provided for life imprisonment for the offense of “homosexuality” and for the death penalty for crime of “aggravated homosexuality”, including execution of “repeat offenders” of

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