Articles about Life Imprisonment

22 December 2011
Trans woman’s killer found guilty of manslaughter after Tube death 8 The killer of Sonia Burgess, a trans human rights lawyer who was pushed to her death under a Tube train in London last year, has been convicted of manslaughter.
21 October 2011
Teen jailed for minimum of 12 years for murdering gay pensioner 19 An 18-year-old has been jailed for murdering a 67-year-old gay Lincolnshire man.
7 February 2011
India’s Supreme Court hears gay sex case 11 India's Supreme Court will today hear arguments for and against a 2009 court ruling which decriminalised gay sex.
27 January 2011
Don’t send gays and lesbians back to Uganda, asylum group warns 26 An LGBT asylum group says the murder of Ugandan gay campaigner David Kato is evidence of the threat gays and lesbians face in the country.
4 January 2011
Judge bans Ugandan media from outing gays and lesbians 10 A high court judge in Uganda has banned all media from outing gays and lesbians.
21 October 2010
Rolling Stone condemns anti-gay Ugandan newspaper 16 US magazine Rolling Stone has condemned the Ugandan newspaper of the same name for calling for gays to be executed.
23 February 2010
Uganda MP says he would kill gay son 20 A Ugandan MP provoked shock at a human rights forum in Kampala last week when he said he would kill his son if he discovered he was gay.
5 February 2010
Ugandan minister says anti-gay bill is likely to be changed 19 Uganda's deputy foreign minister Henry Okello Oryem has said his country's anti-homosexuality bill is likely to be changed before it passes into law.
25 January 2010
Ugandan anti-pastor shows press conference gay porn 23 Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa showed a press conference graphic gay porn last week in an effort to argue why the country's anti-homosexuality bill is necessary.
21 January 2010
Ugandan MP says he may amend anti-gay bill 6 The MP who tabled Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill has said he may amend parts of it.
8 January 2010
Ugandan president Museveni ‘opposes death penalty for gays’ 15 President of Uganda Yoweri Moseveni opposes the death penalty for gays, the country's ethics minister has said.
31 December 2009
Ugandan tabloid prints list of ‘tycoons who bankroll homos’ 65 A notorious Ugandan tabloid has run an article this week which, it claims, identifies individuals who finance the 'stinking vice' of homosexuality.
24 December 2009
Archbishop of York speaks out on Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill 28 Archbishop of York John Sentamu, who was born in Uganda, has condemned the country's plans to introduce the death penalty of life imprisonment for gays.
24 December 2009
Ethics minister says Uganda’s death penalty for gays will be ditched 49 The Ugandan minister for ethics and integrity has suggested that the country will ditch its plans to execute gays in favour of life imprisonment.
16 December 2009
BBC defends debate on gay executions in Uganda 40 BBC editors have defended allowing online readers to debate whether gays in Uganda should be executed.
16 December 2009
Twitter users furious at BBC gay debate 40 Twitter users are complaining about a debate on the BBC's website which asks 'Should homosexuals be executed?'.
16 December 2009
Rwanda to vote on criminalising homosexuality 31 Rwanda's lower house will reportedly vote today on a revision to the penal code which would criminalise homosexuality.
14 December 2009
Archbishop of Canterbury makes first public statement on Uganda’s anti-gay law 28 The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has made his first public statement on the proposed anti-gay bill passing through Uganda's parliament.

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