Nicholas Opiyo is the executive director of Chapter Four Uganda.
14 Facts About Nicholas Opiyo
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Nicholas Opiyo's sister spent eight years in the hands of the rebels before she escaped.
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Nicholas Opiyo once confessed he feared sleeping home and slept on streets because they seemed safer.
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Nicholas Opiyo studied his bachelor's of law from Uganda Christian University in 2004 and a post graduate diploma in legal practice from Law Development Center Kampala in 2005.
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Nicholas Opiyo focuses his work on political and civil rights especially; electoral law, restrictions of freedom of assembly, clampdown on freedom of speech and freedom of press.
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Nicholas Opiyo is known for representing and availing legal aid to LGBT people in Uganda.
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In 2013, Nicholas Opiyo founded Chapter four Uganda to offer legal aid and advance civil rights in Uganda.
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Nicholas Opiyo was a member of the team of experts to the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights to peaceful assembly and Association until 2017.
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In December 2020 Nicholas Opiyo was arrested along with several other lawyers working for Bobi Wine, who was then running against Yoweri Museveni in the Ugandan presidential elections.
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Nicholas Opiyo was denied bail, access to lawyers, and charged with money laundering.
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Nicholas Opiyo's arrest was termed "troubling" by Natalie E Brown, then American diplomat to Uganda.
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In 2017, Nicholas Opiyo received the German Africa prize and in 2015 had received the Voices for justice award from Human Rights Watch.
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Nicholas Opiyo received the European Union parliament Sakharou fellows prize in 2016.
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Nicholas Opiyo won the 2021 Human rights Tulip prize that was started by the Dutch government in 2008 to support human rights defenders to boost visibility of their work and inspire other activists.