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Police arrest activists at UNHRC offices
The Kampala Metropolitan Police have this morning dispatched a gendarme of the Field Force Unit officers to arrest activists from the Uganda Torture Survivors Movement.
The activists had showed up at the UNHRC Kololo based offices to express their discontent with Government decision to reject renewal of contract extension for the institution.
The four activists included Sserunkuuma John Bosco, a councilor in Nansana and former abductee.
He says they anticipate that the closure of the UNHRC offices is political and aims at denying political activists space to bring their plight to the UNHRC.
“Mariam Wangadya and her UHRC are partisan. You’ve heard them several times condemning the opposition and faulting the victims of torture,” he said. “Closing the UNHRC will pave space for government security agencies to torture innocent Ugandans unabated,” he added.
The Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Patrick Onyango when engaged by media says the arrested activists had not sought police clearance in accordance to the laws governing public gatherings and assemblies.