{"id":774,"date":"2014-12-02T16:39:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T16:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsnewundergroundrailroad.org\/?p=774"},"modified":"2015-05-01T18:26:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T18:26:51","slug":"breaking-ugandan-activist-attacked-by-mob-taken-to-intensive-care-by-melanie-nathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/breaking-ugandan-activist-attacked-by-mob-taken-to-intensive-care-by-melanie-nathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Ugandan Activist Attacked by Mob taken to Intensive Care &#8211; by Melanie Nathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #34783d;\"><strong>BREAKING UGANDAN ACTIVIST ATTACKED BY MOB TAKEN TO INTENSIVE CARE<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>By Melanie Nathan, November 28, 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A Ugandan human rights defender and activist known in the LGBT community has been brutally attacked today by a mob and rushed to a Kampala emergency hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">After a loss of blood, from what seems like multiple injuries, including a badly injured eye, Kelly Mukwano, was administered first aid, collapsed and was sent to intensive care, where he is currently stabilized and undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Kelly has been subject to persecution by police with several arrests. After an October arrest, he described his ordeal with police as \u201cthe most trying moment of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please read the whole article by Melanie Nathan about this assault in Uganda and about the ongoing sanctioned culture of violence there: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/oblogdeeoblogda.me\/2014\/11\/28\/breaking-ugandan-activist-attacked-by-mob-in-intensive-care\/\">http:\/\/oblogdeeoblogda.me\/2014\/11\/28\/breaking-ugandan-activist-attacked-by-mob-in-intensive-care\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING UGANDAN ACTIVIST ATTACKED BY MOB TAKEN TO INTENSIVE CARE By Melanie Nathan, November 28, 2014. A Ugandan human rights defender and activist known in the LGBT community has been brutally attacked today by a mob and rushed to a Kampala emergency hospital. After a loss of blood, from what seems like multiple injuries, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}