{"id":83181,"date":"2026-01-05T21:16:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83181"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:16:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:16:05","slug":"amnesty-accuses-uganda-of-torture-and-mass-arrests-ahead-of-january-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/05\/amnesty-accuses-uganda-of-torture-and-mass-arrests-ahead-of-january-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty accuses Uganda of torture and mass arrests ahead of January elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1TBT98.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Uganda's veteran opposition leader Kizza Besigye, center rear, appears at High Court, in Kampala, Uganda, Monday, Dec. 29 2025. (AP Photo\/Hajarah Nalwadda)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amnesty International is accusing Ugandan security forces of torture and arbitrary arrests as the country heads toward elections on January 15. President Yoweri Museveni, now 81 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/amnesty-accuses-uganda-of-torture-and-mass-arrests-ahead-of-january-elections\/ar-AA1TBEJl?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=695c26ebee12493bb0e59d4447eda37e&amp;ei=166\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Amnesty International is accusing Ugandan security forces of torture and arbitrary arrests as the country heads toward elections on January 15. President&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Protest-Uganda.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83182,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83181\/revisions\/83182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}