Tag Archives: Torture

Uganda has been thrust into digital darkness as a nationwide internet shutdown coincides with escalating allegations of torture, abductions, and enforced disappearances allegedly carried out by security forces against opposition supporters ahead of the general elections. The internet blackout, ordered by the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), has suspended public internet access indefinitely, cutting off social media, messaging platforms, email services, …

Big-hearted President Yoweri Museveni has forgiven Swiss-Indian billionaire Pankaj Oswal, whose family in 2024 launched an international smear campaign accusing Uganda of abducting and torturing their daughter. Oswal and his kin – wife Radhika Oswal, daughter Riddhi Oswal ran to every media house—local and international—plus the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), painting Uganda as a rogue state …

Behind the official facade of law and order, a parallel system of terror operates in Uganda, where citizens are abducted, disappeared, and subjected to brutal torture in clandestine “safe houses” run by state security agencies, an investigation based on victim testimonies and human rights data reveals. The stories of survivors, marked by shocking consistency, paint a picture of systemic cruelty …