1/ HRF urges Uganda’s regime to immediately #FreeBobNjagi and #FreeNicholasOyoo, two Kenyan human rights activists, who have been forcibly disappeared since their Oct. 1 abduction by armed security personnel in the Ugandan capital Kampala.

2/ On Oct. 1, heavily armed individuals—some in police uniform, others in plainclothes—forced Kenyan activists @bobnjagi and Oyoo into a van at a petrol station in Kampala. The duo had just attended a rally of Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kn205174po

3/ On Oct. 6, Ugandan police spokesperson Kituuma Rusoke denied that Njagi and Oyoo were in police custody. Both activists are leaders of the Free Kenya Movement and had expressed in supporting Wine’s campaign to challenge dictator Yoweri Museveni’s 40-year grip on power ahead of Uganda’s January 2025 elections. https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/special-reports/elections/two-kenyan-rights-activists-missing-after-bobi-rally-5215596

4/ In August 2024, Kenya’s regime abducted and forcibly disappeared Njagi for 32 days in retaliation for his participation in nationwide mass protests against an unpopular tax bill. https://khrc.or.ke/press-release/we-were-forcefully-disappeared-and-tortured-but-we-refuse-to-be-broken/