PHOTOS: Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signs new anti-gay bill
February 24, 2014
A file picture dated 10 February 2014 shows Kenyan supporters of the LGBT community staging a protest against Uganda's anti-gay bill in front of the Ugandan High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signed into law on 24 February 2014 anti-gay legislation that allows homosexuals to be punished with up to life in prison. The law has come under strong criticism abroad, with US President Barack Obama warning that it could 'complicate' Uganda's relations with one of its biggest aid donors. EPA/DAI KUROKAWA ( FILE KENYA UGANDA HUMAN RIGHTS ANTI-GAY BILL )
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signs a new anti-gay bill that sets harsh penalties for homosexual sex, in Entebbe, Uganda Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Museveni on Monday signed the controversial anti-gay bill into law, with penalties including 14 years in jail for first-time offenders and life imprisonment as the maximum penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", saying it is needed to deter what he called the West's "social imperialism" promoting homosexuality in Africa. (AP Photo/Rebecca Vassie) ( Uganda Gays )
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signs a new anti-gay bill that sets harsh penalties for homosexual sex, in Entebbe, Uganda Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Museveni on Monday signed the controversial anti-gay bill into law, with penalties including 14 years in jail for first-time offenders and life imprisonment as the maximum penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", saying it is needed to deter what he called the West's "social imperialism" promoting homosexuality in Africa. (AP Photo/Rebecca Vassie) ( Uganda Gays )
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, left, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, center, and the transitional leader of the Central African Republic Michel Djotodia, right, arrive for the Special Summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) held at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya on July 31, 2013. Uganda's President Museveni signed a controversial anti-gay bill that allows harsh penalties for homosexual offenses, a bill which rights groups have condemned as draconian in a country where homosexuality is already illegal on Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) ( Uganda Gays )
A file picture dated 10 Februatry 2014 shows a masked Kenyan supporter of the LGBT community holding a condom as he joins others in protest against Uganda's anti-gay bill in front of the Ugandan High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signed into law on 24 February 2014 anti-gay legislation that allows homosexuals to be punished with up to life in prison. The law has come under strong criticism abroad, with US President Barack Obama warning that it could 'complicate' Uganda's relations with one of its biggest aid donors. EPA/DAI KUROKAWA ( FILE KENYA UGANDA HUMAN RIGHTS ANTI-GAY BILL )
A file picture dated 04 August 2012 shows gay and lesbian activists attending Uganda's first gay pride parade at the Entebbe Botanical Gardens in Kampala, Uganda. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signed into law on 24 February 2014 anti-gay legislation that allows homosexuals to be punished with up to life in prison. The law has come under strong criticism abroad, with US President Barack Obama warning that it could 'complicate' Uganda's relations with one of its biggest aid donors. EPA/RACHEL ADAMS ( FILE UGANDA HUMAN RIGHTS ANTI-GAY BILL )
In this Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 file photo, a Kenyan gay wears a mask to preserve his anonymity as they stage a rare protest, against Uganda's increasingly tough stance against homosexuality and in solidarity with their counterparts there, outside the Uganda High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni met in his office with a team of U.S.-based rights activists concerned about legislation that would impose life sentences for some homosexual acts and made clear he had no plans to sign the bill, according to Santiago Canton of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights who attended the Jan. 18, 2014 meeting, but one month later Museveni appears to have changed his mind, saying through a spokesman in February 2014 that he would sign the bill "to protect Ugandans from social deviants." (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) ( Africa Anti Gay Laws )
In this Friday, Aug. 3, 2012 file photo, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, meets with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, right, at the State House in Kampala, Uganda. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni met in his office with a team of U.S.-based rights activists concerned about legislation that would impose life sentences for some homosexual acts and made clear he had no plans to sign the bill, according to Santiago Canton of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights who attended the Jan. 18, 2014 meeting, but one month later Museveni appears to have changed his mind, saying through a spokesman in February 2014 that he would sign the bill "to protect Ugandans from social deviants." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File) ( Africa Anti Gay Laws )
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, center-left, receives a gift from Turkish investors after opening the Galaxy International School Uganda (GISU), outside of Kampala, in Uganda Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed into law a new anti-gay bill, with penalties including 14 years in jail for first-time offenders and life imprisonment as the maximum penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", saying it is needed to deter what he called the West's "social imperialism" promoting homosexuality in Africa. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera) ( Uganda Gays )
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni gestures after signing a new anti-gay bill that sets harsh penalties for homosexual sex, in Entebbe, Uganda Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Museveni on Monday signed the controversial anti-gay bill into law, with penalties including 14 years in jail for first-time offenders and life imprisonment as the maximum penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", saying it is needed to deter what he called the West's "social imperialism" promoting homosexuality in Africa. (AP Photo/Rebecca Vassie) ( Uganda Gays )
In this July 11, 2012 file photo, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni speaks during the London Summit on Family Planning organized by the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the United Nations Population Fund, in central London. Uganda's President Museveni is expected to sign Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 a controversial anti-gay bill that allows harsh penalties for homosexual offenses, a bill which rights groups have condemned as draconian in a country where homosexuality is already illegal. (AP Photo/Carl Court, File) ( Uganda Gays )
Ugandan pupils from different schools take part in an event organized by born-again Christians to celebrate the signing of a new anti-gay bill that sets harsh penalties for homosexual sex, at the Omega Healing Center outside of Kampala, in Uganda Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed the controversial anti-gay bill into law, with penalties including 14 years in jail for first-time offenders and life imprisonment as the maximum penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", saying it is needed to deter what he called the West's "social imperialism" promoting homosexuality in Africa. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera) ( Uganda Gays )
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