Tag: torture

A Rwandan court has sentenced a Chinese national for torture after a video showed him beating men tied on a tree. The court on Tuesday sentenced Sun Shujun to 20 ...

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) diaspora representatives have told the European Union (EU) that government does not take pride in torturing Ugandans. In a presentation that was delivered on Monday ...

Human rights activists from Concerned Citizens Activists Uganda (CCAU) and Rubaga Social Justice Centre have urged the Deputy Speaker Anita Among not to mock victims of torture. It follows an ...

A group of youth under their umbrella association of Torture Survivors of Uganda have petitioned the United Nations Human Rights Office to stop funding the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC). ...

Former presidential candidate Joseph Kabuleta has said If he had a gun, he would be tempted to shoot any writer/editor who uses the phrase "alleged torture" when describing the ordeal ...

Dr. Patrick Wakida is the founder and chief executive of Research World International, a prominent research firm in Uganda. He describes himself as a public policy analyst with specialisation in ...

‘The buck stops with the president’, any president, so they say, and history confirms. Why? I gave Museveni distinction, when his then Intelligence Chief Commander Jim Muhwezi Katugugu ordered that ...

The acting Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Muruli Mukasa said on Tuesday that torture is not a policy of government nor is it even a method of interrogation. In ...

Police in Mbarara have confirmed the arrest of a woman who was seen being forced into a drone by plain clothed security personnel in a video that has since gone ...

Local council leaders of the National Unity Platform, NUP, have vowed to take action against all forms of torture and degrading treatment of Ugandans. Speaking on their behalf, Kawempe Division ...