Human rights lawyer @CSISAfrica, Ex-@HRW Africa, @YLS, believer in compassionate release, social movements, activism & keeping up w motherhood at the same time
Joined January 2013
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A thread: My client got out of 30 years of prison about 6 weeks ago. Since then, people have been telling him that forms he needs are on the web or that they would email something to him. A few days ago, he shyly admitted to me that he doesnt understand what any of that means.
All civilians should be tried in civilian courts. In 2009, the African Comm told Ug to comply w Art 7 of the African Charter and the 2001 Principles on Fair Trials in Africa re the prohibition of trials of civilians by military tribunals. achpr.au.int/en/state-report….
#KizzaBesigye is a civilian and shd be tried in a civilian court.
He has been falsely accused many times and civilian courts found him innocent.
#KizzaBesigye will be found innocent in a civilian court.
Calling for #JusticeforBesigye
@amnesty @hrw @OpenSociety @_AfricanUnion @jumuiya
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Always in awe of my friend @clarekabale…
A personal reflection by @clarekabale on what it’s like to fight anti-homosexuality laws as one of the few openly LGBTIQ+ rights activists in Uganda. africasacountry.com/2024/11/…
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In the popular imagination, public defenders accompany their clients to the very end. In reality, indigent defense stops at the prison gate.
The gravity of mass incarceration demands legal representation to go beyond, writes @jsoble1 of @ILPrisonProject. inquest.org/lawyerless-no-mo…
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The execution of Marcellus Williams is a horrible injustice. This didn’t have to happen. Just a couple weeks ago, prosecutors—with the support of the victim’s family—had reached a plea agreement with Marcellus that took death off the table.
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New in U.S. News Opinion from Marvin Dunn: As a Black man born in Florida in 1940, I’ve been reflecting on how far we’ve come as a nation since my childhood in the era of Jim Crow – and how far we still have to go. usnews.com/opinion/articles/…
🙄 the punishment is the process. #Uganda
Fatuma Nansubuga, a 34-year-old resident of Kalerwe, has been imprisoned at Luzira Prison for allegedly demanding the resignation of Speaker of Parliament Annet Anita Among.
#NTVNews
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Listen to @MarvinDunn4. usnews.com/opinion/articles/…
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Today is Juneteenth, a time we should reckon with the devastating costs of suppressing information, including about slavery and its legacies.
In Florida, leaders are reshaping classroom content through new policies that censor, distort, and discriminate. hrw.org/news/2024/06/19/us-f…
I am on this platform less these days (and not w HRW anymore) but given US sanctioning of UPDF Gen Elwelu after so many years, I am resharing a video about some young victims of the Nov 2016 Kasese killings. Still more work to hold commanders responsible. state.gov/designation-of-uga…
New from @Hrw: Time to investigate Kasese killings of Nov 2016: Ugandan security forces shoot, kill, arrest, detain & torture civilians, charge them w serious crimes, such as treason, and yet the gov has given police & military a free pass to abuse again. hrw.org/news/2018/10/10/ugan…
Register and join us today!
NEW: Nicholas Opiyo @nickopiyo will be joining @_MariaBurnett and @AAgather to offer initial reactions to the upcoming ruling by Uganda’s Constitutional Court on the harsh Anti-Homosexuality Act. The ruling is expected tomorrow, April 03.
Register here: bit.ly/49myB1L
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UPCOMING EVENT
Wednesday, April 3| 10:00-11:00 A.M. ET
Join the @CSIS Africa Program for a conversation with Agather Atuhaire @AAgather, Uganda's award-winning investigative journalist and activist.
Register here: bit.ly/49myB1L
And Kandiho…
Uganda's prison boss @jbyabs is sanctioned by the US government under the Gbla Mcniskey Act for 'being a foreign person who is or has been a leader or official of an entity, including any government entity, that has engaged in, or whose members have engaged in, serious human rights abuse relating to the leader’s or official’s tenure pursuant to E.O. 13818'
It is the same law under which Gen Kale was sanctioned.
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Over 100 Civil Society Organisations from around the world have written to the @WorldBank President Ajay Banga urging him not to restart the Bank’s lending to Uganda as the country continues to aggressively enforce its draconian, anti-human rights legislation; the AHA .
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Pope Francis has suggested for the first time that people in same-sex unions could be blessed by Catholic priests on a “case-by-case” basis, a seeming reversal of previous statements. cnn.it/3PY9ITR
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Absolutely wrecked and sobbing at this beautiful heartbreaking essay newyorker.com/culture/the-we…
A book to close out summer 2023. So grateful to Steve Bright for so many years of thoughtful guidance.
