Mar 24, 2020
Ugandan legal aid attorneys take precautions against COVID-19
Uganda’s LGBTQ-friendly legal aid organization HRAPF is continuing its work while taking precautions against the dangerous new coronavirus. (more…)
View On WordPress
seen from Iraq
seen from Belarus
seen from Yemen
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from South Africa
seen from Malaysia
seen from Russia
seen from Colombia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Colombia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
Ugandan legal aid attorneys take precautions against COVID-19
Uganda’s LGBTQ-friendly legal aid organization HRAPF is continuing its work while taking precautions against the dangerous new coronavirus. (more…)
View On WordPress
When will LGBTIQ Ugandan prisoners be released?
When will LGBTIQ Ugandan prisoners be released?
Lawyers for imprisoned LGBTIQ Ugandans hope that tomorrow, Nov. 26, will see the release of the last 20 people detained at Luzira Prison in the wake of a Nov. 10 raid on the gay-friendly Ram bar. (more…)
View On WordPress
Uganda: Bail set for 14 more people arrested in Nov. 10 raid
Uganda: Bail set for 14 more people arrested in Nov. 10 raid
Twenty-three of 67 people imprisoned in Uganda in the wake of a Nov. 10 raid have now been released, the gay-friendly legal-aid organization HRAPF reported.
(more…)
View On WordPress
Bail for 9 of 67 people imprisoned after anti-gay Uganda raid
Bail for 9 of 67 people imprisoned after anti-gay Uganda raid
Court action is under way against 67 people imprisoned in Uganda in the wake of a Nov. 10 raid in which 125 people were arrested on nuisance charges. In a court hearing today for 11 of them, nine successfully applied for bail, the gay-friendly legal-aid organization HRAPF reported.
(more…)
View On WordPress
Dozens in Uganda prison after anti-LGBTI nightclub raid
Dozens in Uganda prison after anti-LGBTI nightclub raid
Ugandan authorities have sent 67 people to Luzira Prison to await court action related to their arrest during a Nov. 10 raid on the gay-friendly Ram bar in Kampala.
(more…)
View On WordPress
Despite past arrests, Uganda activists plan Pride 2018
Despite past arrests, Uganda activists plan Pride 2018
In 2016, police blocked Uganda’s fifth annual Pride Parade. (Photo courtesy of Facebook)
LGBT rights activists are warily making plans to celebrate Pride this year despite the raids and arrests that foiled the country’s last two Pride events.
(more…)
View On WordPress
Sit-in success: Uganda police promise armed guards
Sit-in success: Uganda police promise armed guards
HRAPF legal officer Betty Balisalamu confronts poilce during the Feb. 12 sit-in at the Old Kampala Police Station. (Frederic Noy photo courtesy of HRAPF)
Human rights advocates at gay-friendly HRAPF held a sit-in at a Ugandan police station Monday to protest the failure of police to arrest criminals who have twice broken into their offices and previously murdered a security guard. As a result of…
View On WordPress
Sit-in at Ugandan police station: 'the only secure place'
Sit-in at Ugandan police station: ‘the only secure place’
Old Kampala Police Station
Starting Monday, a sit-in at a Ugandan police station will protest the failure of police to arrest criminals who have twice broken into the offices of a gay-friendly legal aid group and murdered a security guard.
(more…)
View On WordPress