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18 يونيو 2021

Sipiriano Baluma

تاريخ الحادثة
18 يونيو 2021
دقة التاريخ
جميعها صحيحة
Sipiriano Baluma
ذكر
مدافع عن حقوق الإنسان, أحد قادة أو أفراد مجتمع محلي متضرر
الاحتجاز التعسفي
ضحية الاعتداء: فرد
موقع الحادثة: أوغندا
Great Season-SMC Ltd. أوغندا البن / القهوة, الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة
Kiryandongo Sugar Ltd. (part of Rai Holdings Private Limited) أوغندا السكر, الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة
Rai Holdings Private Limited (Rai Group) موريشيوس السكر, الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة
جهات فاعلة أخرى

المصادر

Sipiriano Baluma (or Sepriano Baluma) is a land rights defender and a member of a community that alleges to be illegally and violently evicted and land grabbed by Great Seasons Company in Uganda. In June 2021, he was arrested with land right defender Martin Munyansia and two other community members, identified as Byaruhanga Ronald (aged 16), and Godfrey Munyansia, all residents of Jerusalem- Kisalanda, Kitwala sub-county in Kiryandongo district. According to reports, the 'unlawful' arrest was carried out by police officers guarding Great Seasons SMC Limited plantations, as well as five private security guards of the company. Eyewitnesses explained that the police and guards attacked the families from their gardens in Kisalanda, claiming that they had trespassed on company land.

Both Baluma and Munyasia have been previously criminalised for their land rights defense work. Munyansia and other seven land rights defenders are charged with threatening violence. Baluma had been allegedly arbitrarily detained by police while lodging a complaint regarding the destruction of his crops.