Tag Archives: Detention

KAMPALA — Dr. Kizza Besigye, Uganda’s veteran opposition figure, has now spent 432 consecutive days in detention without conviction, as concerns mount over his deteriorating health and the prolonged pretrial confinement that rights advocates say violates fundamental due process protections. Besigye was seized in Nairobi, Kenya, on November 16, 2024, in what the Commonwealth Secretary-General later described as an “extraterritorial …

Kampala– The Uganda Catholic Lawyers fraternity, have condemned the continued detention of Rev. Fr. Deusdedit Ssekabira in army detention without allowing him to access his lawyers and family members. Rev Fr.Deusdedit Ssekabira. “The actions surrounding the arrest and detention of Rev. Fr. Sekabira constitute multiple grave violations of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda, 1995, including but not limited …

NAIROBI, Kenya – In his first detailed account since his release, Kenyan human rights defender Bob Njagi has alleged that he and his colleague were subjected to severe torture and dehumanizing conditions during their 39-day incommunicado detention in Uganda, directly implicating the country’s elite Special Forces Command (SFC). Njagi and his fellow activist, Nicholas Oyoo, were finally released and dumped at …