Uganda Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/uganda/ An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world. Thu, 10 Jun 2021 03:28:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Uganda Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/uganda/ 32 32 59910430 Dr. Stella Nyanzi Released in Uganda https://concernedscientists.org/2020/03/dr-stella-nyanzi-released-in-uganda/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 02:23:29 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7851 Dr. Stella Nyanzi, a medical anthropologist who had been sentenced to 18 months in prison for “insulting” Uganda’s President Museveni, has been released. A former Makerere University lecturer, Dr. Nyanzi was convicted in 2018 for violating Uganda’s Computer Misuse Act – posting offensive language directed at the President on-line. This conviction, a clear violation of […]

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]]> 7851 Ugandan Academic/Writer/Feminist Receives Award While Imprisoned https://concernedscientists.org/2020/01/ugandan-academic-writer-feminist-receives-award-while-imprisoned/ Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:29:00 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7826 Dr. Stella Nyanzi, Ugandan academic, writer and feminist activist was awarded the Oxfam Novib/PEN International award for Freedom of Expression. Dr. Nyanzi remains in Luzira Women’s Prison in Kampala, where she has been for the past 15 months for criticizing the President and his mother through her poetry. At the award ceremony, held in the […]

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]]> 7826 Social Science Researcher and Anthropologist, Dr. Stella Nyanzi,  at Makerere University in Uganda, Was Arrested and Charged for Criticizing the President and His Wife on Facebook https://concernedscientists.org/2017/05/social-science-researcher-and-anthropologist-dr-stella-nyanzi-at-makerere-university-in-uganda-was-arrested-and-charged-for-criticizing-the-president-and-his-wife-on-facebook/ Sun, 07 May 2017 17:32:44 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=6043 Dr. Stella Nyanzi, a Professor at Makerere University in Uganda, was arrested and charged under the Computer Misuse Act of 2011 for insulting the President on Facebook.  Dr. Nyanzi was advocating that schools supply sanitary pads to girls so that they may attend  school during their menstrual cycle.  Many girls were not showing up in […]

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