EXCLUSIVE: Umm Sahl writes about the plight of her husband, Omar Awadh Omar, detained unlawfully in Uganda.

Uganda should release a Kenyan human rights activist facing terrorism and murder charges in connection with a bomb attack on Kampala or serve him with details of those charges, two rights groups said late on Monday.

Human rights activist Al-Amin Kimathi has been charged in Uganda in connection with the twin bomb blasts in Kampala, on July 11.

A Kenyan rights activist providing counsel for suspects of Uganda's July attacks remains in prison following the release of colleague and lawyer Mbugua Mureithi, who has accused Uganda authorities of a "witch hunt."

In sending troops into Somalia, the Ugandan president is doing Washington's bidding and endangering his country.

Two prominent human rights workers, one of them a lawyer, were arrested this week in Uganda as part of a US-sponsored local 'security response' to bombings in Kampala over the summer.