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Journalists have been attacked, lawyers jailed, election monitors prosecuted and opposition leaders violently muzzled.

Anti-gay rhetoric ramps up fear among LGBT+ Ugandans ahead of polls By Nita Bhalla NAIROBI, Jan 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Homophobic comments by Uganda's president and other politicians are making some LGBT+ Ugandans too scared to vote in elections scheduled for Jan. 14, gay rights campaigners said on Tuesday. LGBT+ people face widespread persecution in the east African nation, where gay sex is punishable by life imprisonment, and gay activists fear politicians exploiting homophobic sentiment to win votes could stoke fresh attacks on the community.Reuters | Updated: 06-01-2021 18:40...

Lawyer Nicholas Opiyo granted Shs 15m cash bail December 31, 2020 Nicholas Opiyo appearing in court via video link from Kitalya prison Renowned human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo has been granted a Shs 15 million cash bail after spending more than a week in custody. Opiyo, the executive director of Chapter Four Uganda, a human rights organization was arrested last week on Tuesday with two others from a restaurant in Kamwokya in Kampala on allegations of money laundering. The arrest was in relation to a sum of $340,000 (Shs 1.2 billion) which wa...

A court in Uganda on Wednesday granted bail to the country's highest-profile human rights lawyer, whose detention ahead of a tense election next month was widely seen as politically motivated. Nicholas Opiyo, an internationally-recognised human rights campaigner and outspoken government critic, was arrested last week on charges of money laundering and detained in prison, drawing condemnation from around the globe and strident calls for his immediate release. Justice Jane Okuo Kajuga rejected the case made by state prosecutors for keeping Opiyo, 40, behind bars, instead granting him bail on co...

Text size A court in Uganda on Wednesday granted bail to the country's highest-profile human rights lawyer, whose detention ahead of a tense election next month was widely seen as politically motivated. Nicholas Opiyo, an internationally-recognised human rights campaigner and outspoken government critic, was arrested last week on charges of money laundering and detained in prison, drawing condemnation from around the globe and strident calls for his immediate release. Justice Jane Okuo Kajuga rejected the case made by state prosecutors for keeping Opiyo, 40, behind bars, instead grantin...