Tag Archives: Forcing

A 45-year-old woman has been remanded by the Chief Magistrate’s court in Mitooma district, western Uganda, over allegations that she forced her eight-year-old stepson to swallow sewing needles and several fragments of broken glass. Juliet Tushabeomwe appeared before grade one magistrate Gibson Muhangi on Thursday and was charged with aggravated torture and attempted murder. State prosecutor Caroline Kesubi told court …

KAMPALA | A fiery city lawyer, Steven Kalali, has stormed the High Court — not for a divorce, but to stop the state from forcing sex in marriage!Kalali wants Section 20 of Uganda’s Divorce Act scrapped, branding it an “archaic, colonial relic” that turns marriage into “state-approved slavery.”The controversial clause allows a spouse to petition court for “restitution of conjugal …

MBARARA, WESTERN UGANDA — Shocking revelations have rocked Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital after it emerged that mortuary attendants have been running a full-blown extortion racket — squeezing cash out of grieving families in exchange for releasing bodies of their loved ones. According to multiple whistleblowers within the hospital, the attendants charge between UGX 200,000 and 500,000 to “release” a body …