April 21, 2021 President Yoweri Museveni inspecting an army parade
The USA threatened action against human rights abuses in Uganda for months in 2020 and last Friday an official travel ban was announced against unnamed high-profile government officials shining critical light on an increasingly important question: How damaging are the existential consequences for such banishment for the country and certainly the sanctioned individuals?
Though no names were mentioned, at least we have an inkling of who must be on the travel blacklist. When Congressmen began pushing the outgone Donald Trump administration last October for a more muscular response to what they described as “human rights abuses in Uganda and the country’s slide toward authoritarianism, the lead campaigners brandished a list of errant Ugandan officers that should be sanctioned.
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Pakistani National Indicted and Sanctioned for Human Smuggling Conspiracy Details Written by Justice Department
Miami, Florida - A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia returned an indictment Wednesday charging a citizen of Pakistan for allegedly leading a scheme to smuggle undocumented individuals into the United States from Pakistan and Afghanistan.
According to court documents, between January 2015 and December 2020, Abid Ali Khan, 40, allegedly organized, led, and worked, with others in his Pakistan-based smuggling network to facilitate the travel of undocumented individuals to the United States. Khan allegedly disregarded the fact that the individuals did not have prior authorization to enter the United States and that their entry into the United States would be illegal. Khan also allegedly encouraged, induced, and brought undocumented individuals to the United States for commercial advantage and financial gain.