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The Ugandan authorities must immediately end police and military siege on opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi’s home and free him and his wife Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi. This is an arbitrary detention, declared Amnesty International at a time when the siege entered the seventh (7th) day after Gen Museveni controversially declared the winner by his hand-picked Electoral Commission. Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu and his wife, Barbara Kyagulanyi, are being held under house arrest without being presented before a judge and for a non-cognizable offence, said Deprose Muchena, the Director for East and Southern Africa. In a controversial announcement, without specifying the name of the district where the results come from; Kyagulanyi a. k. a Bobi Wine, was declared runner-up by the Electoral Commission in last week’s presidential election, with 34.8% of the vote, behind President Yoweri Museveni, who it said got 58.6%. Bobi Wine and his National Uni
The Ugandan authorities must immediately lift the police and military siege of opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi’s home and release him and his wife Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi. This is an arbitrary detention, said Amnesty International as the post-election blockade entered its 7th day. Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, was declared runner-up by the Electoral
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December 28, 2020
Responding to the sentencing of women human rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul to five years and eight months imprisonment following an unfair trial before the Specialized Criminal Court (SCC), Amnesty International’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Heba Morayef, said:
“Loujain al-Hathloul is a brave human rights defender whose peaceful activism together with other brave Saudi activists has driven momentous social change in Saudi Arabia. This sentencing, while partially suspended, still shows the cruelty of the Saudi authorities towards one of the bravest women who dared to be vocal about her dreams of a better Saudi Arabia.
For our January book club we will be reading Latinx Art by Arlene Dávila, which draws on Dávila’s numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and artists. Providing an inside and critical look at the global contemporary art market, Dávila’s book is at once an introduction to contemporary Latinx art and a call to decolonize the art world and practices that erase and whitewash Latinx artists.
Our conversation will be led by Fabiola R. Delgado, a Venezuelan Human Rights Lawyer turned independent curator, creative consultant, and programs specialist at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. As an Amnesty International Regional Manager in Venezuela, her activism proved too dangerous, forcing her to move to the United States where she currently seeks political asylum, and dedicates herself to finding justice through artistic and cultural expressions. She strives for thought-provoking and imaginative projects that