Uganda: Oil Pipeline Protests Stifled

Anti-fossil fuel activists and environmental defenders in Uganda face repeated harassment, including arbitrary arrests, for protesting a planned oil pipeline.  The project has devastated thousands of people’s livelihoods in Uganda and risks locking in decades of greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to the global climate crisis.  The Ugandan government should respect the rights of all activists and drop criminal charges against people for exercising their freedoms of assembly and expression.