After Uganda’s 2016 Presidential election, one of the former presidential candidates, Mr John Patrick Amama Mbabazi, made preparations to challenge the election results in the Supreme Court. The offices of his lawyers were however broken into in the night leading to the 9th of March 2016. Evidence for the petition was taken in documents and computer equipment. This incident obviously negatively affected the petition. There are conflicting opinions on the motive for the burglary and who the perpetrators of the burglary were.
Exploring Security challenges of civil society in Uganda
On Friday 27th June 2014, Defenders Protection Initiative organized a breakfast meeting that was under the theme “Exploring the emerging security and safety challenges faced by civil society in Uganda”
The Digital Security Alliance
The Digital Security Alliance is a coalition of organisations and individual digital security experts working towards securing the digital assets of civil society, human rights defenders, journalists and other activists in the face of threats posed by powerful corporations, unscrupulous criminals, state and other non state actors.