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A spokesman says Museveni is not opposed to the bill’s punishments, but wants lawmakers to study ‘the issue of rehabilitation.’
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has refused to sign into law a controversial new bill against homosexuality that prescribes the death penalty in some cases, requesting that it should be amended.
Museveni’s decision was announced late on Thursday after a meeting of parliamentarians in his ruling party, almost all of whom support the bill approved by lawmakers last month.
The meeting resolved to return the bill to the national assembly “with proposals…
