#FreeTheKCB11
Sharing the inspiring, ongoing frontline #OilOutOfAfrica voices in Uganda, Tanzania, RDC...local voices across Africa responding to rappacious western oil grabs happening there now.

1000s displaced, environmental destruction, toxic waste, climate-wrecking.

Opposition imprisoned.
#FreeTheKCB11
"They had gone through normal procedure...the next thing that happened was that police came and arrested them."

This is what happens when you ask African banks like #KCB to stop funding climate destruction. 85days in jail for opposing #EACOP #Justice4TheKCB11 #StopEACOP! fm4.orf.at/stories/3048...
EACOP - Imprisoned for a Peaceful Petition - fm4.ORF.at
Young activists have spent 84 days sleeping on the concrete floor of a high-security jail in Uganda. Their lawyer says they have been unfairly jailed for peaceful and justified protests against a „car...
fm4.orf.at
July 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Uganda has imprisoned 11 #StopEACOP activists for 70 days after a peaceful protest at Kenya Commercial Bank. Defending the environment is not a crime! Release the KCB11 now. #FreeTheKCB11 #ClimateJustice www.rainforest-rescue.org/updates/1399...
Uganda: Release the eleven prisoners!
The government of Uganda is taking harsh measures against environmental activists seeking to stop the EACOP oil pipeline. Eleven critics of the project have been imprisoned for 70 days after attemptin...
www.rainforest-rescue.org
July 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“It’s hard to imagine a more vivid picture of corporate-state collusion than activists being led into a trap and arrested for trying to share their concerns about a fossil fuel project characterized by rights and environmental harms,” #StopEACOP #FreeTheKCB11 cri.org/uganda-relea...
Uganda: Release Peaceful Climate Activists Unlawfully Held in Detention
(San Francisco, June 30, 2025) – The Ugandan High Court should dismiss charges against eleven climate activists detained for peaceful opposition to the controversial East African Crude Oil Pipeline (E...
cri.org
July 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
📢Court update on #TheKCB11

⏩11 Ugandan activists arrested at the
@KCBUganda
basement on 23rd April are back in court today.

@KCBUganda
must distance itself from this case as a sign that it respects Ugandans' right to protest.
⏩Voicing opposition to #EACOP is not criminal
June 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🚨 URGENT: 11 human rights defenders face criminal charges for peacefully delivering a petition expressing concerns about #EACOP. Both ENDS calls for their immediate release, and cease of all further intimidation, harassment and arrest of citizens speaking out against EACOP. #FreeTheKCB11 #StopEACOP
May 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Kampala Uganda: 11 youth—#StopEACOP defenders—peacefully walked into KCB Bank to deliver a letter urging the bank to divest from the destructive EACOP pipeline. They were arrested.

The fight to end health-wrecking fossil fuel financing is global, and growing.

#FreeTheKCB11
@stopeacop.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
@kcbbankug lured 11 peaceful #StopEACOP activists into their basement, where they were ambushed and arrested on false charges. Their crime? Attempting to deliver a letter about the bank's involvement in the destructive #EACOP pipeline. #FreeTheKCB11 #StopEACOP #@KCBGroup #@NSSF_ke #@kcbbankug
May 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🚨We're having an X(Twitter) storm today from 12pm EAT to raise awareness about the decision by #KCBGroup to get involved in the controversial #EACOP project — and their role in aiding the ARREST of the 11 #StopEACOP activists who speak up against the project. Please join us. #FreeTheKCB11
May 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM