GENEVA (29 March 2023) – Making homosexuality punishable by death is an egregious violation of human rights, UN experts said today, urging Uganda’s president not to promulgate laws that take aim at and further criminalise people identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT), and those who support and defend their human rights. “The imposition of the death penalty based on such legislation is _per se_ an arbitrary killing and a breach of article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR),” the experts said, noting that…
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 29 March 2023. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
