Police has admitted that the alleged actions by a police driver in an NTV video footage released on Saturday “are concerning and highly regrettable by management.” In the video, a police vehicle knocks a man as he waves to former FDC presidential candidate Rtd.Col Kizza Besigye as he drove through …
Read More »UN vote on Burundi police force expected Friday
United Nations, United States | AFP | The UN Security Council is expected to vote on Friday on deploying a UN police force to Burundi to monitor human rights and help quell violence in the African country. France requested a vote on a draft resolution presented two weeks ago to …
Read More »VIDEO: Gen Kayihura in Algiers over AFRIPOL Implementation
VIDEO: Police Chief General Kale Kayihura is in Algiers, the Capital of Algeria on a mission to assess the progress on the implementation of the proposed African Police (Afripol) – an offshoot of the International Police. Afripol was proposed in Cartagena, Colombia in 2014 and was approved by the African …
Read More »VIDEO: Gen Kale Kayihura summoned by Makindye Court
NBS: The Inspector General of Police, Gen. Kale Kayihura and seven of his officers have been summoned by the Makindye Magistrates’ court over torture charges relating to police brutality against Dr. Kizza Besigye’s supporters. This follows an application before Grade one magistrate, Julliet Nakitende, by a group of concerned citizens …
Read More »German police say machete attack could be ‘crime of passion’
Berlin, Germany | AFP | German police are working on the assumption that Sunday’s machete attack by a Syrian asylum-seeker that left one woman dead and two people injured in the city of Reutlingen was a “crime of passion”, DPA news agency reported. “When a man and woman have an …
Read More »Trial starts for Senior “Kiboko” Officers who caned Besigye supporters
NBS: Police has turned its guns on the senior officers who commanded the Kiboko squad that saw supporters of Dr. Kizza Besigye beaten for two days in a row last week. The DPC for Wandegeya Nonoka Moses and the Regional Police commander for Kampala south have been charged before the …
Read More »Kenya security accused of murder and abduction: report
Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Security agencies are killing and abducting men in north-east Kenya who they suspect of links to Islamist extremists, a rights group said Wednesday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) documented 34 “enforced disappearances” and 11 suspected “extrajudicial killings” over two years in Garissa, Mandera and Wajir counties …
Read More »VIDEO: Police put up trial of their own over Besigye supporters beating
NBS TV: Following the orders by the police chief Gen Kale Kayihura to investigate the police officers that beat up Besigye supporters last week, a disciplinary court was set up and started hearing the case that saw 6 of its officers appear before it. However, many questions have been raised …
Read More »America’s war on its black citizens
Slavery in America may have ended but the US state has reproduced it through mass incarceration of blacks and police violence in poor black communities due to its hidden economic gains THE LAST WORD: By Andrew M. Mwenda Recent events in the United States; where police shot and killed two …
Read More »Three US police officers dead, several injured in Baton Rouge shooting
Washington, UNITED STATES | AFP | Three police officers were killed and three injured in a shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Sunday, with at least two suspects at large, police said. “Three law enforcement (officers) are confirmed dead, three others injured,” the East Baton Rouge sheriff’s office said in …
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