Over fifty environmental defenders and project affected persons were arrested for peaceful protest. Our legal team represents them at no cost.
Charges dropped or defeated in every case, and a clearer public record that peaceful environmental protest is lawful.
A running record of who was detained, where and on what charge, built with community organisers.
Formal representation entered for defendants who had none, and bail applications filed.
Cases proceeding through the magistrates courts, with continued monitoring of new arrests.
We are hereThe outcome we are working toward in every file.
More than fifty people have been arrested in Uganda for peaceful protest connected to the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. Students, farmers whose land sits on the route, and organisers who helped them write a petition.
Our legal team represents them without charge, alongside other environmental lawyers. The work is unglamorous: bail applications, adjournments, tracking where people are being held, and making sure nobody is quietly forgotten in a district cell.
The wider point is that peaceful protest about land and environment is not a crime, and every case that ends without conviction makes the next arrest harder to justify.
Getting a plain warning onto the front of every ultra processed pack sold in Uganda, so a shopper knows what is inside before it reaches the pot.
Where it stands Nutrient Profile Model signed February 2026
The first law of its kind in East Africa. It would protect indigenous seed, curb agrochemicals and make agroecology the region's default rather than its exception.
Where it stands Tabled before the EALA ATNR Committee May 2026