A major LGBTQ+ activist was brutally stabbed & Uganda's anti-gay law is to blame
Police treated the activist like a criminal, raiding his home while he was still recovering in search of evidence to prove he was gay.
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Police treated the activist like a criminal, raiding his home while he was still recovering in search of evidence to prove he was gay.
Uganda held presidential and parliamentary elections on January 14. In the months before, armed men in “drones” abducted people from markets, taxi stops, petrol stations, roadsides, and homes. Hundreds of disappearances have been reported in the press and on social media. President Museveni himself, discussing what he described as “so-called disappearances”, said last month that the army had arrested more than 300 people. Most of those taken are young men with links to the National Unity Platform (NUP), the opposition party Bobi Wine leads. For this story, Al Jazeera spoke to the rela...
Daily Monitor Friday January 22 2021 GULU- Police are investigating the death of Richardson Tabu, a former secretary of the Independent Electoral Commission (EC), in Gulu City. On January 8, Tabu, 33, left his home in Opwoyomal Village, Laroo Division in Gulu City, and went to his work place at Senior Quarters in Gulu. However, at 6pm, Tabu reportedly left office to look for food but never returned. His family reported a case of a missing person to police the following day. Sources told Daily Monitor that Tabu could have been kidnapped by unknown assailants before he was killed. The m...