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Amnesty International and several civil society organizations jointly released a petition on Monday addressed to the National Assembly of Kenya, urging the Departmental Committee on Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations to acknowledge and end abductions and renditions in Kenya. Petitioners recalled that in November 2024, prominent Ugandan opposition figure and former presidential candidate for the [...]

Ugandan political activist and lawyer Norbert Mao announced on Monday that the case concerning prominent opposition politician, Kizza Besigye, is in the course of transfer from the Ugandan Court Martial to the High Court. He stated that the Attorney General, Director of Public Prosecutions, and the principal judge are working to transfer the case, following [...]

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders condemned the Ugandan government Wednesday for the arrest, torture and judicial harassment of human rights lawyer Eron Kiiza. Kiiza was arrested on January 7, at the General Court Martial in Makindye township while representing his client, opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye. Besigye, a former presidential candidate [...]

A Ugandan military tribunal, in a self-referred “court martial,” added the charge of “treachery” against Ugandan ex-opposition leader Kizza Besigye, and his aide Hajji Obeide Lutale. The tribunal also added Captain Denis Ola, a serving Ugandan military general, to the charges. The charge of treachery falls under the heading of treason within s.23(3)(a) of the [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Ugandan authorities to overturn a military tribunal’s decision and release lawyer Eron Kiiza, who has been convicted of contempt of court without a formal trial. Kiiza was arrested after reportedly shouting at a court martial after being denied entry to the reserved space for lawyers when attempting to represent opposition [...]

Prominent Ugandan opposition figure Dr Kizza Besigye, who disappeared Saturday while visiting Kenya, resurfaced on Wednesday in a military jail back in Uganda, according to statements from his wife and James Orengo, governor of Siaya, Kenya. The opposition figure’s disappearance sparked a response from Amnesty International. The group discussed the growing and worrying trend of [...]

Ugandan opposition leader and former presidential candidate Bobi Wine said on Thursday that police had surrounded his residence and put him “under house arrest” ahead of opposition protests planned to take place later that day.  On X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Wine shared that police and military forces were preventing him from leaving [...]

Uganda police announced on Saturday that opposition leader Kizza Besigye will be charged with treason after he was arrested Wednesday for declaring himself the president of the country despite losing the election to President Yoweri Museveni ....

A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern Tuesday over the tense situation in Uganda after Thursday's election where President Yoweri Museveni apparently won a...

Kizza Besigye, the opposition candidate for president of Uganda, was arrested with several of his supporters on Friday. Besigye was arrested as the election commission released early results that showed incumbent President Yoweri Museveni leading the election with...