Daily Monitor
Thursday December 24 2020
This photo taken on December 24, 2020 shows human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo holding a novel as he awaits being remanded back to police custody until December 28, 2020. PHOTO/ STEPHEN OTAGE
Summary
The fate of the other four suspects, who included lawyers Herbert Dakasi, Esomu Obure, Anthony Odur and Human Rights officer, Hamid Tenywa however, remained unknown by the time of filing this story.
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Human Rights lawyer, Mr Nicholas Opiyo who was arrested on Tuesday and detained at Special Investigations Unit (SIU) Kireka has been remanded after he was on Thursday charged with money laundering.
Mr Opiyo on Thursday appeared before Nakawa Chief Magistrate’s Court where the case was read to him.
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Daily Monitor
Thursday December 24 2020
Summary
The arrest of Mr Opiyo and four of his colleagues Herbert Dakasi, Anthony Odur, Esomu Obure and NUP s Human Rights Officer Hamid Tenywa aroused criticism both in Uganda and abroad.
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Activists have asked the US to impose targeted sanctions on senior leaders of the Ugandan police force, following the arrest of human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo.
Police on Tuesday arrested Mr Opiyo, a human rights lawyer and Executive Director of Chapter Four Uganda. Mr Opiyo was at a restaurant with four other lawyers when he was reportedly blindfolded and bundled in a car by plainclothes officers.
Nicholas Opiyo, a lawyer who has fought tirelessly for LGBT+ rights, was arrested on money laundering charges. (Facebook)
High-profile Ugandan LGBT+ rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo was “violently arrested” on money laundering charges in what activists have said was “an attack on human rights defenders”.
Opiyo is well-known for representing LGBT+ people in the harshly anti-LGBT+ African country. He was arrested in a restaurant in Kampala on Tuesday (22 December), according to Chapter Four Uganda, a human rights organisation of which he is executive director.
Four other lawyers were also arrested: Anthony Odur, Herbert Dakasi, Simon Peter Esomu and Tenywa Hamid.
The organisation said it was deeply concerned about the “abduction and incommunicado detention” of Opiyo.
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