Human Rights
Part I: One political activist’s lasting fight with Speaker Among
An acquittance invited Habib Buwembo, 42, a renown political activist, for a meeting at a Kampala hotel in January 2017. When Buwembo arrived, the acquittance asked him to sit, and excused himself. Suddenly, Anita Among (now the speaker of parliament), then an ordinary Member of Parliament, a few months into…
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Part II: How Buwembo was jailed for threatening Speaker Among
On February 8, 2022, the Ugandan parliament was unusually charged. One after another, legislators lambasted government over widespread state-sponsored torture. Kampala Central MP, Mohammad Nsereko, had increasingly toned…
How Uganda tried to silence #March2Parliament protests
“I expected to be killed. I expected to be raped,” said Aloikin Praise Opoloje, a few days after she was released from detention on bail…
‘Worse than business as usual’: EU overlooks Uganda’s attack on human rights
The European Union claims to stand up for human rights, the rule of law, transparency in government and peaceful, democratic elections. Yet in recent years…