Tag Archives: torture

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lira Chief Magistrates court has remanded a man who was captured on video torturing an expectant woman. Hilary Owino appeared before the Lira Chief Magistrate, Zeneba Natukunda on Monday where he was charged with torture and was remanded to prison until May 13, 2021. Natukunda decided …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP is paying medical bills for 44 supporters who were tortured during the just concluded general elections. The majority of these were reportedly kidnapped and tortured by security while others returned from prisons in very bad shape. Joel Ssenyonyi, the NUP party …

Mpigi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A National Unity Platform-NUP victim who was abducted by non-uniformed masked gunmen has lauded his assailants for not torturing him contrary to his family and the public assumption that he may have been tortured to death. Abdu Rashid Nkinga who was abducted together with eight …

John Katumba says he was brutalized by police and the army as he tried to reach out to the population during the presidential campaigns Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former independent presidential candidate John Katumba says he is in pain stemming from the extensive torture and beating he underwent at …

CID boss and two officers have been detained and charged with torture Amolatar, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Amolatar district are holding one of their own and two UPDF soldiers accused of torturing a suspect to near-death while in custody. The police officer has only been identified as Osigire, the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 11 people who had been recorded among the missing supporters of the National Unity Platform-NUP in Mukono North constituency have returned home two months after they were reported missing. These were among the people who were reported missing during the peak of the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ronald Ssegawa, a resident of Bishop Mukwaya in Bwaise I in Kawempe division is suffering from excruciating pain following torture by his abductors. Unidentified people kidnapped Ssegawa near Avis Company along Tula road a fortnight ago. According to his family, they searched for Ssegawa in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two National Unity Platform-NUP supporters who were allegedly kidnapped from Katoogo village in Nama sub county in Mukono North constituency are rotting away at their homes after undergoing a series of torture. Twenty-three-year-old Joseph Nkoyoyo Kyakuwa and 53-year-old Fred Kamya Yuya sustained serious injuries but …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 20 cases of torture related to elections have been registered by the African Centre for Rehabilitation and Treatment of Torture Victims-ACTV. Alex Kigoye, the programs manager at ACTV says the cases were registered between September 2020 and December 2020. He was speaking at …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four senior security officers in Masaka district are on the spot for allegedly torturing National Unity Platform- NUP leaders and coordinators in the area. Enoch Abaine, the greater Masaka Regional Police Commander, David Nyesigire Katunda, the Masaka District Police Commander, Majid Owepukulu, the in-charge Masaka …