Agather Atuhaire is a Ugandan lawyer, human rights defender and freelance journalist. Born in 1988, Agather is known for her fearless reporting on corruption, natural resource exploitation ...

What kind of country are we if we put “investment” above human dignity and use “sovereignty” to excuse abandoning hospitality ...

About AtuhaireAccording to Agora Centre for Research, where Ms Agather Atuhaire is the executive team leader, she is a distinguished lawyer and journalist with over 11 years of experience.

Atuhaire was found abandoned at the border on Thursday night after being held in custody since Monday, Agora Centre for Research, the Uganda-based rights group that she leads, posted on X.

Ugandan rights group Agora Discourse said on Friday that activist and journalist Agather Atuhaire had been “abandoned at the border by Tanzanian authorities” and showed signs of torture.

Stripped naked, beaten until she could no longer walk, sexually assaulted and covered in excrement: award-winning Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire told AFP of the torture she suffered at the hands ...

Agather Atuhaire said, “They removed all my clothes and left me in my underwear. They beat me. Then I was taken to a clinic, and they inserted stuff into me. I don’t know what it was.” ...

Ms Agather Atuhaire, an activist with Agora Discourse, was arrested alongside Kenyan photojournalist/activist Boniface Mwangi, after their presence in Tanzania was queried.

I met Agather Atuhaire, a Ugandan human rights defender, in late May at the Oslo Freedom Forum, an event celebrating activists against authoritarianism. She was petite but powerful, bruised but ...

Kenyan human rights advocate Boniface Mwangi and award-winning Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire spoke out during a June 2 press conference in Nairobi, detailing the alleged physical and sexual ...

A Ugandan activist who was arrested and held for days in Tanzania and later found at the border between the two countries has told the BBC that she was raped while in detention. Expanding on the ...