Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 6:27 am
GENEVA (11 January 2021) – UN human rights experts
today appealed to the new U.S. Administration to immediately
close the Guantánamo Bay detention centre, saying the
remaining detainees risk death from rapidly deteriorating
health by old age and mental and physical harm suffered in
cruel and inhuman conditions of
imprisonment.
“Guantánamo is a place of
arbitrariness and abuse, a site where torture and
ill-treatment was rampant and remains institutionalised,
where the rule of law is effectively suspended, and where
justice is denied,” the experts said on the 19th
anniversary of its establishment on 11 January,
2002.
They said the COVID-19 pandemic further
Uganda: UN experts gravely concerned by election clampdown
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GENEVA (29 December 2020) – UN human rights experts today expressed serious concerns about the violence ahead of Uganda s presidential election, and urged authorities to put an end to the arrest, detention and judicial harassment of political opponents, civil society leaders and human rights defenders.
Media outlets have reported that three journalists were hurt on Sunday after being hit by tear gas canisters in Masaka. Opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, said one of his bodyguards died after being hit by a military truck later the same day. The military has denied this, saying he fell from a speeding car.