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   From: dthomas@zazzle.com   
      
   Yesterday the Ugandan president signed into law a bill   
   criminalising homosexuality in the country, and today a leading   
   tabloid “exposed” what it described as the country’s top 200 gay   
   citizens.   
      
   Yet if it seems like Uganda must be the most dangerous place in   
   the world to be gay right now, a group of LGBT rights   
   campaigners has produced a map showing that for many people   
   around the world the situation is even worse.   
      
   According to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and   
   Intersex Association (ILGA), homosexuality is illegal and   
   punishable by the death penalty in the whole or part of seven   
   countries: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, Nigeria, Mauritania   
   and Somalia.   
      
   By enacting a law that means people found have gay sex face life   
   imprisonment, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has put his   
   country into a group that includes Tanzania, Malaysia, Guyana   
   and Bangladesh.   
      
   Even in countries like India, Morocco, Kenya and Jamaica   
   homosexuality is punishable by up to 14 years in jail, according   
   to the ILGA.   
      
   Writing about the new anti-gay laws that have now been passed in   
   both Uganda and Nigeria, the ILGA said: “These developments go   
   against the ideals of humanity and human rights. LGBT   
   individuals are victimized, humiliated, violated and murdered   
   within their own countries. Societies should be alarmed when   
   governments legalize human rights violations.”   
      
   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/and-you-thought-   
   uganda-was-bad-map-shows-where-in-the-world-it-is-worst-to-be-   
   gay-9152558.html   
      
       
      
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