The first multiparty elections in Uganda for two decades are unlikely to be free and fair because of the government’s ongoing harassment of the political opposition, said Human Rights Watch. Despite impressive displays of independence from the Electoral Commission and the judiciary, the first multiparty elections in two decades have been marred by intimidation of the opposition, military interference in the courts and bias in campaign funding and media coverage, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper which is based on research conducted over the past three months across the country and in the capital, Kampala.