Human rights campaigners condemn bill introducing capital and life imprisonment sentences

The new law appears to be the first to outlaw merely identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer, according to rights group Human Rights Watch.

A controversial anti-homosexuality bill has been passed by Uganda's members of parliament which has attracted strong condemnation from rights campaigners.

Uganda has passed a law banning citizens from identifying as LGBTQI in a move activists labelled extreme and draconian.

Uganda’s parliament on Tuesday passed sweeping new anti-gay legislation that allows death sentences for HIV-positive people engaging in repeated sexual intercourse with someone of the same gender and life imprisonment for same-sex relations.

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.