US EditionTwelve deportees from US arrive in Uganda, Law Society says
- On Thursday, 12 people deported from the United States arrived in Uganda on a private charter flight, marking the first known transfer under the bilateral Safe Third Country Agreement.
- President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown drives the deportations, which seek to remove individuals unable to return home; the United States has established similar transfer agreements with at least seven other African nations.
- Uganda Law Society condemned the arrival, stating deportees were "effectively dumped in Uganda through an undignified, harrowing and dehumanizing process," and plans to challenge the legality of the transfers in court.
- Yasmeen Hibrawi, public affairs counsellor at the United States Embassy in Kampala, said transfers "are in full co-operation with the government of Uganda," though she declined to discuss specific cases for privacy reasons.
- Uganda already hosts nearly 2 million refugees, primarily from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo; officials confirmed arrivals will remain during a transition phase for potential onward transmission.
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Uganda Law Society Challenges 'Dehumanising' Deportation of Ugandans From U.S.
The Uganda Law Society (ULS), in collaboration with the East African Law Society, has launched a legal challenge against what it describes as an unlawful and "dehumanising" deportation scheme involving individuals forcibly removed from the United States and transported to Uganda.
Twelve people evicted from the United States landed in Uganda on Thursday, 2 April, according to the Ugandan Bar Association. A first, since the signature – discreet – of a migration agreement between Kampala and Washington last August. An agreement denounced as opaque by the Ugandan Bar Association
A first group of 12 deportees from the U.S. arrives in Uganda, lawyers say
The deportees were “effectively dumped in Uganda through an undignified, harrowing and dehumanizing process,” the law society said in a statement, adding that they arrived on a private charter flight.
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