{"id":12622,"date":"2011-11-01T10:24:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=12622"},"modified":"2011-11-01T10:24:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:24:12","slug":"ugandan-regime-sharply-increases-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/ugandan-regime-sharply-increases-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan Regime Sharply Increases Repression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess this would be less relevant if Obama had not just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/14\/obama-invades-uganda-only-the-latest-intervention-against-lra\/\">sent combat troops<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2011\/10\/15\/new-war-of-choice-in-uganda-follows-familiar-foreign-police-doctrine\/\">to support the Ugandan military and government in their fight against the LRA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/news\/news-item\/uganda-government-backed-harassment-and-repression-of-critics-increasing\">Amnesty International<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Ugandan government and public officials are increasingly placing illegitimate restrictions on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly to silence critical voices, Amnesty International said in a report released today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stifling Dissent: Restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly in Uganda<\/em>\u00a0describes how journalists, opposition politicians and activists face arbitrary arrest, intimidation, threats and politically motivated criminal charges for expressing views deemed critical of the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Public protests have been banned in Uganda amid unverified claims that the organisers planned violence. In recent weeks four political activists have been charged with treason &#8211; a capital offense &#8211; for their involvement in organising the protests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ugandan authorities are creating a climate where it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to freely criticise government officials, their policies or practices,&#8221; said Godfrey Odongo, Amnesty International\u2019s Uganda researcher.<\/p>\n<p>The report also documents increasing restrictions on the media in Uganda which hinder it from freely broadcasting information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess this would be less relevant if Obama had not just sent combat troops to support the Ugandan military and government in their fight against the LRA. Amnesty International: The Ugandan government and public officials are increasingly placing illegitimate restrictions on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly to silence critical voices, Amnesty International said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12623,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622\/revisions\/12623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12622"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}