# Museveni assents to Anti-Homosexuality Act including death penalty for aggravated homosexuality Date: 2023 ## The fact On 26 May 2023 President Museveni assented to the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023. ULII records gazette publication on 30 May 2023. The Act creates life imprisonment for homosexuality and a death-penalty maximum for aggravated homosexuality. Parliament had passed a reconsidered text on 2 May after he returned an earlier version. ## Context He assented after asking MPs to distinguish identity from acts; the death-penalty maximum remained. Courts later struck some clauses in 2024; that judgment is a neighbouring instrument. 2 May parliamentary reconsidered passage; 26 May assent; 30 May gazette. Stored as one 2023 assent Fact. Keep Museveni assents to Anti-Homosexuality Act including death penalty for aggravated homosexuality on 2023-05-26 separate from neighbouring [Museveni](/people/yoweri-museveni) instruments. The president of Uganda is head of state, head of government, and commander-in-chief of the UPDF under Article 98. He assents to bills Parliament has passed and appoints the Chief of Defence Forces. He does not write OHCHR briefing notes, Electoral Commission gazette tallies, ULII consolidations, or US visa-restriction lists. ## Evidence and sources ULII / Judiciary of Uganda carries the official instrument or communique. Associated Press records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is minority-rights protection and [civic space](/drivers/civic-space): a completed criminal statute with a death-penalty maximum. ## What is established and what is not Established: He assented on 26 May 2023; ULII stores the Act with life imprisonment and a death-penalty maximum for aggravated homosexuality. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Parliament passed. Courts later judged some clauses. Sharing passage is not a reason to drop the assent.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Museveni assents to Anti-Homosexuality Act including death penalty for aggravated homosexuality, not a later speech about Museveni assents to Anti-Homosexuality Act including death penalty for aggravated homosexuality. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Museveni assents to Anti-Homosexuality Act including death penalty for aggravated homosexuality on 2023-05-26 is not a licence to treat every later ULII / Judiciary of Uganda communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Museveni assents to Anti-Homosexuality Act including death penalty for aggravated homosexuality into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He assented. Parliament passed. Courts later judged some clauses. Sharing passage is not a reason to drop the assent. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Yoweri Museveni: https://factrail.ai/people/yoweri-museveni ## Drivers - Museveni incumbency and civic squeeze: https://factrail.ai/drivers/museveni-incumbency-and-civic-squeeze - Civic Space: https://factrail.ai/drivers/civic-space - Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights ## Sources - https://apnews.com/article/uganda-lgbtq-bill-signed-museveni-e236013019a26a0348968e6593f04f14 - https://ulii.org/en/akn/ug/act/2023/6/eng@2023-12-31 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ug-anti-homosexuality-act-2023