Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyers representing 15 terror suspects have asked Buganda Road Magistrates Court to allow the doctors from the African Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims to access the prisons and examine the health status of the suspects. The suspects include money operators Yusuf Muwonge alias Hamza …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security has released the identities of 12 suspects arrested in connection to the rebel Allied Democratic Front (ADF). Police spokesperson Fred Enanga identifies the suspects as Kambale Jovas, Kasali Mbusa, Omirambi John Baptist, Baluku Anthony, Mukwaya Edgar, Bukuya Andrew, Hanifa Hamil, Harimana Tonanta, Kamuri Tonento, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Prisons has received three sets of guidelines on how to handle terror suspects. The tools were developed by both the Uganda Prisons Services and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime -UNODC. They are supposed to prevent the spread of violent extremism …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have revealed that many of the wanted terror suspects allegedly attached to Allied Democratic Forces -ADF have now left Kampala metropolitan area perhaps for upcountry places or even sneaked back to their hideouts in neighbouring countries. Without revealing names or number of terror suspects …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Human rights lawyers have petitioned the Uganda Human Rights Commission-UHRC over extrajudicial killings of terror suspects. The lawyers under their umbrella, the Uganda Muslim Lawyers Association, Muslim Center for Justice and Law, and Network for Public Interest Law-NEPTIL, want the commission to open and conduct …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ever since the attack on former Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen Edward Katumba Wamala on June 1, Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence, Crime Intelligence, and Joint Anti-Terrorism Taskforce have arrested over 100 terror suspects but 12 of them have been shot dead during investigations. The …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 14 out of 50 people arrested in connection to the bomb explosions in Kampala and Mpigi district have been released following the failure by the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence-CMI, and police to find evidence linking them to the blasts that claimed the lives …
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