ACTION · A mannequin crowd against political imprisonment

For over two decades, opposition leaders, activists, and others who disagree with the Ugandan regime have been detained without clear and fair charges. Instead of being tried in civilian courts, they are tried by military courts, even though they are civilians. It has been clear for years that they are not receiving a fair trial there, sometimes resulting in the death penalty.

On January 31 of this year, the Supreme Court of Uganda ruled in a major court case that this practice is illegal and that civilians should be tried in a civilian court. Despite this ruling, dozens of people remain in custody on trumped-up charges, awaiting unfair trials in a military court.

A group of young Ugandans, including several former political prisoners, have formed the action group We The People, with which they are raising awareness of, and fighting against, the use of military courts to try civilians. Because demonstrating against the regime is often physically dangerous for activists, the activist group, with funding from the Action Fund, created a crowd of mannequins in the street leading to the court.

Each mannequin bore the name of a political prisoner who is being wrongly imprisoned. The group hoped this would raise awareness for the prisoners and increase pressure on the regime to release them. The prisoners haven’t been released yet, but there’s been more attention to the situation, and the willingness to demonstrate in this way has increased. They keep fighting for justice!

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