{"id":26351,"date":"2021-09-13T16:19:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T13:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=26351"},"modified":"2021-09-13T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T14:00:12","slug":"government-withdraws-charges-against-lawyer-nicholas-opio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/13\/government-withdraws-charges-against-lawyer-nicholas-opio\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Withdraws Charges Against Lawyer Nicholas Opio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Director of Public Prosecution, Jane Frances Abodo has withdrawn charges of money laundering against human rights lawyer, Nichola Opiyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a letter dated 10\/09\/2021, Abodo informs court that the Director of Public Prosecution Hs decided to discontinue the proceedings against Nicholas Opiyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It should be noted that on December 22nd<\/sup> 2020, Nicholas Opiyo was arrested by plain cloth security men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uganda Police Force then revealed on social media that Opiyo was in custody on suspicion of money laundering \u201cand related malicious acts\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The arrest was in relation to a sum of USD 340,000 (1.2 billion Shillings) which was channelled through an account in ABSA Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was detained with Anthony Odur, Simon Peter Esomu, and Herbert Dakasi, lawyers working for other civil society organisations, along with NUP\u2019s Hamid Tenywa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On December 31, 2020 Nicholas Opiyo was granted a Shs15million cash bail after more than a week in custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opiyo is the Executive Director of Chapter Four, a leading non-profit legal and advocacy organisation focused on defending civil liberties, and has won several international awards for his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Director of Public Prosecution, Jane Frances Abodo has withdrawn charges of money laundering against human rights lawyer, Nichola Opiyo. In a letter dated 10\/09\/2021, Abodo informs court that the Director of Public Prosecution Hs decided to discontinue the proceedings against Nicholas Opiyo. It should be noted that on December 22nd 2020, Nicholas Opiyo was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":20586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31,6884],"class_list":["post-26351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-nicholas-opio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26369,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26351\/revisions\/26369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}