I didn’t mean that journalists should be brutalized – Ochola
Faced with growing pressure over his endorsement of brutality against journalists, the Inspector General of…
Human Rights
US report pins Museveni, security forces on rights violations
A new report by the United States of America State Department has listed President Yoweri…
Conned of Shs 1million but Namuyanja’s search for her abducted husband won’t end
Because she was sobbing, the police instead asked her if she had had a fight with her husband or if the husband had another wife.
The agony of being a Ugandan policewoman
Unhygienic sanitation facilitates, poor accommodation and unsuitable uniforms are some of the factors that make…
Missing persons; Kitalya prison on the spot over food items
Since last December, Stella Nayiga has been frequenting Kitalya prison taking food and other essentials…
Journalists sue Military Police commander
Lt. Col. Namanya is the officer who commanded military police soldiers to beat up journalists who were covering the former National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu as he delivered a petition on human rights violations to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the UN agency’s offices in Kololo, Kampala.
DPP loses interest in 13 Maj Kiggundu murder suspects
After spending nearly four years on remand over charges of aiding and abetting terrorism, belonging…
Journalists kept in the dark as tormentors are charged
New Vision’s Henry Ssekanjako was equally shocked to learn that the military had summarily tried and sentenced its officers without taking a statement from him or inviting any of the brutalized journalists to testify against the soldiers
UN Rights body contradicts police on Kyagulanyi visit
The United Nations (UN) human rights body has criticised the manner in which security forces…
How the security raided, killed Masaka protestors
The fourth victim, Grace Nakalyango, an expectant mother was tortured by the security operatives near her home in Nyendo – Kasana.
Nakalyango was not among the protestors but the soldiers whipped her because she was wearing a red blouse, eye witnesses say.