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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11027
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EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) uganda

S&D slams witch-hunting of gays

Brussels, 26/02/2014 (Agence Europe) - The publication by a Ugandan newspaper on Tuesday of the names of 200 alleged homosexuals after the country introduced a new anti-gay law on Monday 24 February, has been severely criticised by Hannes Swoboda, leader of the S&D Group at the European Parliament.

Slamming what he described as a “witch-hunt”, Swoboda threatened that the EU would apply sanctions - either targeted sanctions under the EU's foreign and defence policy or sanctions under the...

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