By using our diplomats and assistance to impose even a small cost for the worst repression, we once helped protect and uplift ...

Uganda’s legal heart-beat pulsed with a single question: who truly holds power when justice seems to bend under pressure? From treason charges and election reversals to long-awaited murder confessions ...

In East Africa's Tanzania and Uganda, political tensions are rising as they prepare for the next elections. Tanzania goes to ...

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyers representing jailed opposition politician Rt. Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye and his ...

Former presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye and his aide Hajji Obeid Lutale have formally petitioned the Judicial Service ...

Eid al-Adha is a significant Islamic festival commemorating Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience ...

Rael Ombuor has been a reporter/researcher in The Post's Nairobi bureau since 2019. She has reported on human rights, the ...

Human rights lawyer Eron Kiiza has petitioned the High court to release his passport, which was deposited as part of his bail ...

The wife of imprisoned Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye said Thursday he was being held under inhumane conditions and ...

In defiance of a supreme court ruling, Uganda’s parliament under the National Resistance Movement’s President Yoweri Museveni ...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed legislation that allows military tribunals to try civilians, parliament said on ...

I met Agather Atuhaire, a Ugandan human rights defender, in late May at the Oslo Freedom Forum, an event celebrating ...