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Sputnik International
Daily Monitor
Thursday December 24 2020
Summary
The arrest of Mr Opiyo and four of his colleagues Herbert Dakasi, Anthony Odur, Esomu Obure and NUP s Human Rights Officer Hamid Tenywa aroused criticism both in Uganda and abroad.
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Activists have asked the US to impose targeted sanctions on senior leaders of the Ugandan police force, following the arrest of human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo.
Police on Tuesday arrested Mr Opiyo, a human rights lawyer and Executive Director of Chapter Four Uganda. Mr Opiyo was at a restaurant with four other lawyers when he was reportedly blindfolded and bundled in a car by plainclothes officers.
The East African
Wednesday December 23 2020
Uganda police disperse crowds in Kayunga town as they gather to welcome Ugandan musician-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, on December 1, 2020. Lawyer claims there is a political motive to dissuade investigations on police action during protests. PHOTO | AFP
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Robert Amsterdam, Wine’s international lawyer, said the US must punish the rogue police to stop what he argued was ‘thuggish’ treatment of opposition figures and activists.
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Activists have asked the US to impose targeted sanctions on senior leaders of the Ugandan police force, following the brutal arrest of a lawyer representing opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine.
What US sanctions can do to generals
December 16, 2020 Written by ROBERT SPIN MUKASA
US lawmakers have focused their recent anger against Uganda and the ruling NRM government’s use of force to slow the march of the coronavirus and in the process restrict freedom of association and expression during the electoral period.
They have written to US Secretary of State Mike R. Pompeo urging the US administration to conjure up a more muscular response to human rights abuses in Uganda and the country’s slide toward authoritarianism.
In an apparent response to that plea, Mike R. Pompeo in a recent tweet, said Uganda was a long-standing partner and Washington expected its partners to hold free and fair elections.
CORRECTED-U.S. congressmen want top Uganda officials punished for rights abuses Reuters 12/10/2020
By Elias Biryabarema
KAMPALA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Two U.S. congressmen have asked the U.S. government to punish seven top Ugandan security officials under the Global Magnitsky Act for their role in rights abuses, saying the country is sliding toward authoritarianism.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on Jan. 14 in which incumbent Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled since 1986, is seeking another five-year term.
The Democratic chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Eliot Engel, and the most senior Republican on the panel, Michael McCaul, made the request in a letter dated Dec. 9 to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.