{"id":43889,"date":"2020-12-22T17:29:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=43889"},"modified":"2020-12-22T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:01:37","slug":"human-rights-lawyer-nicholas-opiyo-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/human-rights-lawyer-nicholas-opiyo-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43890\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43890\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/opiyo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/opiyo-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/opiyo-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/opiyo-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/opiyo.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo. PHOTO\/ FILE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"author noprint\"><strong>By Ivan Ssenabulya<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Mr Nicholas Opiyo, a human rights lawyer based in Kampala has been arrested by plain cloth security men, his team confirms.<\/p>\n<p>He represents the Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) whose accounts were blocked by security last week on accusations of supporting terrorism in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Opio was arrested from Lamaro restaurant in Kamokya, by security but police are yet to comment about his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to KFM, the Executive Director of Centre for Constitutional Governance Sarah Bireete said that the fraternity of Civil Society Organizations is currently heading to the police headquarters to find out about Opio\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Opio was the lawyer representing the two non-profit organizations NGO Forum and Uganda Women\u2019s Network whose accounts were frozen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ivan Ssenabulya Mr Nicholas Opiyo, a human rights lawyer based in Kampala has been arrested by plain cloth security men, his team confirms. He represents the Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) whose accounts were blocked by security last week on accusations of supporting terrorism in Uganda. Opio was arrested from Lamaro restaurant in Kamokya, by security but police are yet to comment about his arrest. Speaking to KFM, the Executive Director of Centre for Constitutional Governance Sarah Bireete said that the fraternity of Civil Society Organizations is currently heading to the police headquarters to find out about Opio\u2019s arrest. Opio was the lawyer representing the two non-profit organizations NGO Forum and Uganda Women\u2019s Network whose accounts were frozen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":43890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}