Congo lawmaker wants jail, not slavery, for LGBT people

Congolese member of parliament and former presidential candidate Constant Mutamba is standing by h is bill that would criminalize gay sex for the first time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, although he has clarified that his bill seeks to sentence homosexuals to prison, not to slavery, as had been reported in some outlets. Mutumba had described the bill as calling for “5 to 10 years of servitude” for gay sex, but the bill itself calls for “5 to 10 years of penal servitude.”