11 thoughts on “Shocking Police Brutality Against Women in Uganda”
The US and EU keep demonizing Kony while the real Dictator Museveni is busy suppressing freedom of assemby and expression through his rogue security forces. Shame on M7. Long live Ugandan human rights champions!
Its total dictatorship in Uganda. Yoweri Museveni´s revolution is now irrelevant and eating its own children. The kids that have written the Book Is it the Fundamental Change? were born in Museveni´s 26 years rule. For God and my Country. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YzCmOZiGYs
It is really shocking that Museveni is gagging the free media by all means. The Red Pepper Uganda news online account has been suspended. It is alo interesting how Museveni’s government spends a lot of money to equip its police with full combat gear, video cameras and vehicles, not to protect Ugandans, but to harass them. This is a police State.
Ugandan journalists banned from open court by judge
February 23, 2012
Submitted by loyan
Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) says it is “dismayed” by the conduct of Justice Faith Mwonda, who has blocked the media from covering open court proceedings that she presides over.
Two-weeks-ago (10 Feb 2012), four journalists were blocked from covering Justice Mwonda’s proceedings in the High Court of Entebe, where a High Court Circuit has been set up to handle a backlog of cases and expedite the disposal of pending matters including aggravated robbery, murder, defilement and rape.
The journalists in question are Yasin Kintu of the New Vision Group, Tony Muyanja of Red Pepper, Henry Oketch of Radio Simba and Kikongo Ssebalamu of Vision Group working for Bukkedde TV and the newspaper.
During a court process, a police officer approached Kintu and Muyanja as they were seated taking notes in court. The officer asked if they were journalists and when they answered in the affirmative they were called outside to identify themselves. On doing this they were told that they were not free to go back since they had not sought for justice Mwonda’s permission to be in court. They were then blocked from re-entering the courtroom. The police officers said they were acting on the orders of Justice Faith Mwonda.
Henry Oketch and Kigongo Ssebalamu were blocked right at the court entrance by the two police officers, one of whom was called Zziwa with a police number 32916. Zziwa pushed Ssebalamu downstairs from the second floor. The journalists insisted on knowing why they were being blocked from covering an open court session, but the police officers maintained that they were not allowed to cover the court proceedings.
A scuffle ensued until an office assistant and another person from the court came and told them to enter but without the cameras.
When Ssebalamu insisted on filming the proceedings, he was arrested by two police officers who took him along with Oketch to Entebe police station, and presented them to the DPC of Entebe, Edgar Nyabongo. Nyabongo said he was acting on the orders of Justice Faith Mwonda to charge the two with Contempt of Court. He charged them and cautioned them never to go back to Mwonda’s court sessions with a camera. He released them shortly after. The scuffle was filmed as it unfolded.
Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) talked to all four journalists. They gave individual accounts of what happened. Two of them; Yasin Kintu and Henry Oketch addressed a press conference organized by HRNJ-Uganda in Kampala and narrated their ordeal. They said they are scared of going back to court sessions presided over by Justice Faith Mwonda for fear of the repercussions.
DPC Nyabongo told HRNJ-Uganda that he was acting on orders of Mwonda. “They were cautioned over Contempt of Court. You know the judge has powers to allow in cameras or not. I was not in court, so for details you call Justice Mwonda.
Justice Mwonda is no stranger to controversy. Journalists in Entebe said that they suffered the same wrath last year at the judge’s hands when she threw them out of court for no apparent reason.
In a similar manner, while presiding over a High Court session in Jinja it is reported that Justice Mwonda again sent away reporters from proceedings saying she did not need that form of publicity.
A Red Pepper journalist Tom Kalamula told HRNJ-Uganda that Justice Mwonda has also suspended him and the Red Pepper from covering court proceedings in Nakawa Court. The same judge, while still the Inspector General of Government (IGG), caused the arrest of a Daily Monitor photo journalist, Stephen Otage in July last year (2011) for photographing her outside the court house despite it being a public place. The case has failed to graduate to a court level.
Justice Mwonda also took a criminal libel law suit against Daily Monitor journalists Emmanuel Gyezaho, Robert Kalumba, Bana Tabaire and Joachim Buwembo over their reporting of her salary in 2007. These journalists have since challenged the libel law in the Supreme Court, which has not yet been decided.
“We are greatly concerned about this conduct by Justice Mwonda in taking it upon herself to systematically block the eyes and ears of the public under unclear circumstances. This conduct is an insult to the media and it greatly impedes on our work,” HRNJ Uganda chairperson Mulindwa Mukasa said.
HRNJ-Uganda has therefore decided to petition the Judicial Service Commission, the Principal Judge, and the Chief Justice among others demanding for investigation into this matter and a most appropriate action be taken to restrain her from infringing on journalists’ rights and freedoms.
U.S. Condemns Violent Groping-Arrest Of Leading Female Uganda Politician
In a strongly-worded statement the U.S. Department of State has condemned the use of excessive force by Uganda’s Police, who appear to have sexually assaulted a leading female politician while arresting her last week.
Saying freedom of expression are “fundamental human rights” the U.S. also expressed “concern” over the banning of a leading civil activism organization, A4C, as well as the arrest of a group of women who demonstrated yesterday over the manner in which Ingrid Turinawe, the female politician, was mistreated last week.
Turinawe, who leads the Women’s League of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), a major opposition party, was driving to attend a rally just outside Kampala, the capital, when she was dragged by her right breast while seated in the front seat of her car, by one of the several police officers in riot-gear.
Ugandan television shows the officer grabbing her right breast more than once, squeezing it and pulling on it, as Turinawe cried in pain and beat off the officer’s hand. Turinawe reportedly was also punched several times on her breasts by officers once she had been hauled into a police van.
Ironically, Turinawe was driving in a two-car convoy, trailing the mayor of Kampala, Elias Lukwago, on their way to attend a rally by 4GC (“For God And My Country” Uganda’s national motto), an organization created after the banning of A4C, when the sexual assault, in public and caught on camera, occurred.
“We condemn any excessive use of violence by police,” the U.S. Department of State spokesperson said, when asked about the manner in which Turinawe was arrested. “We encourage Uganda to investigate allegations of excessive use of force by security services and to hold perpetrators accountable. We also continue to encourage Uganda to take tangible steps to improve its human rights record, particularly with regard to the protection of civil liberties and the human rights of women and of minority populations.”
Uganda’s minister of Internal Affairs, James Baba, today announced that one officer had been suspended and that investigations continue, according to media accounts.
The U.S. also reacted to the banning A4C, or activists for change, by Uganda’s Attorney General, Peter Nyombi. A4C had been organizing a regular protest campaign called Walk-to-Work to highlight rampant inflation and corruption.
“We have expressed our concern, both publicly and privately, about crackdowns on peaceful protests and restrictions on freedom of speech and assembly in Uganda,” the State Department spokesperson said. “As we have stated on numerous occasions, freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly are fundamental human rights and a critical component of democracy.”
Reacting to the arrest yesterday of several female activist who demonstrated in front of Kampala’s Central Police headquarters, by exposing their bras, the spokesperson said: “We call on the Ugandan government to respect the rights of civil society to engage in non-violent demonstrations.”
The women arrested Monday carried signs some of which read: “How would you feel if we squeezed your balls?” They called for the prosecution of the officer who allegedly molested Turinawe and the resignation of national police chief Gen. Kale Kayihura.
Suppose these brutal (nigger Police) were whites Policemen squissing)breasts of a Nigger Citizen Woman! The Questione to be asked here is When will Black looking Chimpanzees become Civilized and Humans?And How will black race realize their Primitivity and Niggerism?
Egypt Considers Allowing Men to Have Sex With Their Dead Wives’ Bodies
By Jackal News And Agencies 2012-04-26 16:34:37
JACKAL NEWS – A sane person asking themselves the question “Should a man be allowed to have sex with his dead wife’s body?” would likely answer in a way that ranged from a calm but immediate “No.” to an emphatic, shouted “JESUS LAST DANCE OF MARY JANE CHRIST NO!” But these are not sane times. And the thought leaders in the Egyptian Parliament are actually considering enacting a law that would give men the legal right to have sex with their wives up to 6 hours after they die.
The totally nutty “post-death crysex” law didn’t spring from nothing; in fact, last year a Muslim cleric reasoned that since marriage is a bond that lasts beyond death, both men and women are entirely within their rights to have sex with their dead spouse’s bodies. Nothing more erotic than a little rigor mortis of the peen, right, ladies?
Women’s groups, understandably, are upset by this proposition, which is being considered alongside another totally messed up law that would lower the age where it’s legally okay for women to get married to 14 (I guess at that age that I wouldn’t call them “women,” but rather “girls” or “kids,” but tomato, tomahto, right, Egypt?!)
Egyptians aren’t taking this without a healthy WTF pushback, calling the proposition “unbelievable” and a “catastrophe.” It’s also “gross” and “really, unbelievably fucked up.”
It seems that America isn’t the only place where the government has unofficially declared a War on Women. But while America’s efforts have focused mostly on punishing women of reproductive age, Egypt’s newly-elected Islamist majority Parliament has kept itself busy rolling back rights of women living, dead, and pre-pubescent. Aside from what one Egyptian journalist has called the “Farewell Intercourse” law (a much more polite and succinct title than one I’d give it — The WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK ARE YOU PEOPLE CRAZY?! Law) and the “Marry Your Beautiful Female Child Off ASAP” Law, Parliament has attempted to undo most of the legally ensconced rights women in the country have — like the right to petition their husbands for divorce.
During the now-toppled Mubarak regime, an Islamic women’s right to divorce law called Khula was introduced. It allowed women in unhappy or abusive marriages to seek to terminate the union without having to jump through many legal hoops. Before Khlua, women were still technically allowed to ask for divorce, but the petition usually took 10 to 15 years to be granted by the dilly dallying court system. And now the religious Parliament wishes to undo that law, saying divorce “destroys families.” Something tells me that the Muslim Brotherhood currently running Egypt would be at home in Wisconsin.
According to Al-Arabiya, Dr. Mervat al-Talawi, the head of the Egyptian National Council of Women, has launched a personal appeal to the head of Parliament, Dr. Saad al-Katatni, urging him via letter to stop being a misogynist. I’d like to personally urge him to also stop being a creepy weirdo who thinks it’s okay for men to fuck children and corpses.
Kawera. Those primitive goons are whitemen in black skins. They are trained and governed by colonial law and they employ colonial methods of work? One day we shall decolonise our Africa, be independent and free from colonial boundaries, bondage and mentality. Do not forget that is is from the niggers that or the human race came from. Do not conden your roots. Condemn the acts of those individuals and cliques employed to keep Africa the source of raw marterials and a dumping ground for failed policies and their commodities most of which are not safe for the environment.
MUSEVENI employs prostitutes as policewomen they are very brutal mostly these women in police-uniforms are lesbians well known in Kampala and in Entebbe!
Museveni is Schizophrenic and his goons! He wants to hand over power to his homosexual Son! (Playboy) Tell him to forget. ICC should issue secret warrant of arrest since killings of Luwelo triangle!
The US and EU keep demonizing Kony while the real Dictator Museveni is busy suppressing freedom of assemby and expression through his rogue security forces. Shame on M7. Long live Ugandan human rights champions!
I am speechless. God save Uganda. http://redpepper.co.ug/welcome/?p=35787
Its total dictatorship in Uganda. Yoweri Museveni´s revolution is now irrelevant and eating its own children. The kids that have written the Book Is it the Fundamental Change? were born in Museveni´s 26 years rule. For God and my Country. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YzCmOZiGYs
It is really shocking that Museveni is gagging the free media by all means. The Red Pepper Uganda news online account has been suspended. It is alo interesting how Museveni’s government spends a lot of money to equip its police with full combat gear, video cameras and vehicles, not to protect Ugandans, but to harass them. This is a police State.
Ugandan journalists banned from open court by judge
February 23, 2012
Submitted by loyan
Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) says it is “dismayed” by the conduct of Justice Faith Mwonda, who has blocked the media from covering open court proceedings that she presides over.
Two-weeks-ago (10 Feb 2012), four journalists were blocked from covering Justice Mwonda’s proceedings in the High Court of Entebe, where a High Court Circuit has been set up to handle a backlog of cases and expedite the disposal of pending matters including aggravated robbery, murder, defilement and rape.
The journalists in question are Yasin Kintu of the New Vision Group, Tony Muyanja of Red Pepper, Henry Oketch of Radio Simba and Kikongo Ssebalamu of Vision Group working for Bukkedde TV and the newspaper.
During a court process, a police officer approached Kintu and Muyanja as they were seated taking notes in court. The officer asked if they were journalists and when they answered in the affirmative they were called outside to identify themselves. On doing this they were told that they were not free to go back since they had not sought for justice Mwonda’s permission to be in court. They were then blocked from re-entering the courtroom. The police officers said they were acting on the orders of Justice Faith Mwonda.
Henry Oketch and Kigongo Ssebalamu were blocked right at the court entrance by the two police officers, one of whom was called Zziwa with a police number 32916. Zziwa pushed Ssebalamu downstairs from the second floor. The journalists insisted on knowing why they were being blocked from covering an open court session, but the police officers maintained that they were not allowed to cover the court proceedings.
A scuffle ensued until an office assistant and another person from the court came and told them to enter but without the cameras.
When Ssebalamu insisted on filming the proceedings, he was arrested by two police officers who took him along with Oketch to Entebe police station, and presented them to the DPC of Entebe, Edgar Nyabongo. Nyabongo said he was acting on the orders of Justice Faith Mwonda to charge the two with Contempt of Court. He charged them and cautioned them never to go back to Mwonda’s court sessions with a camera. He released them shortly after. The scuffle was filmed as it unfolded.
Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) talked to all four journalists. They gave individual accounts of what happened. Two of them; Yasin Kintu and Henry Oketch addressed a press conference organized by HRNJ-Uganda in Kampala and narrated their ordeal. They said they are scared of going back to court sessions presided over by Justice Faith Mwonda for fear of the repercussions.
DPC Nyabongo told HRNJ-Uganda that he was acting on orders of Mwonda. “They were cautioned over Contempt of Court. You know the judge has powers to allow in cameras or not. I was not in court, so for details you call Justice Mwonda.
Justice Mwonda is no stranger to controversy. Journalists in Entebe said that they suffered the same wrath last year at the judge’s hands when she threw them out of court for no apparent reason.
In a similar manner, while presiding over a High Court session in Jinja it is reported that Justice Mwonda again sent away reporters from proceedings saying she did not need that form of publicity.
A Red Pepper journalist Tom Kalamula told HRNJ-Uganda that Justice Mwonda has also suspended him and the Red Pepper from covering court proceedings in Nakawa Court. The same judge, while still the Inspector General of Government (IGG), caused the arrest of a Daily Monitor photo journalist, Stephen Otage in July last year (2011) for photographing her outside the court house despite it being a public place. The case has failed to graduate to a court level.
Justice Mwonda also took a criminal libel law suit against Daily Monitor journalists Emmanuel Gyezaho, Robert Kalumba, Bana Tabaire and Joachim Buwembo over their reporting of her salary in 2007. These journalists have since challenged the libel law in the Supreme Court, which has not yet been decided.
“We are greatly concerned about this conduct by Justice Mwonda in taking it upon herself to systematically block the eyes and ears of the public under unclear circumstances. This conduct is an insult to the media and it greatly impedes on our work,” HRNJ Uganda chairperson Mulindwa Mukasa said.
HRNJ-Uganda has therefore decided to petition the Judicial Service Commission, the Principal Judge, and the Chief Justice among others demanding for investigation into this matter and a most appropriate action be taken to restrain her from infringing on journalists’ rights and freedoms.
http://www.keycorrespondents.org/2012/02/23/ugandan-journalists-banned-from-open-court-by-judge/
U.S. Condemns Violent Groping-Arrest Of Leading Female Uganda Politician
In a strongly-worded statement the U.S. Department of State has condemned the use of excessive force by Uganda’s Police, who appear to have sexually assaulted a leading female politician while arresting her last week.
Saying freedom of expression are “fundamental human rights” the U.S. also expressed “concern” over the banning of a leading civil activism organization, A4C, as well as the arrest of a group of women who demonstrated yesterday over the manner in which Ingrid Turinawe, the female politician, was mistreated last week.
Turinawe, who leads the Women’s League of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), a major opposition party, was driving to attend a rally just outside Kampala, the capital, when she was dragged by her right breast while seated in the front seat of her car, by one of the several police officers in riot-gear.
Ugandan television shows the officer grabbing her right breast more than once, squeezing it and pulling on it, as Turinawe cried in pain and beat off the officer’s hand. Turinawe reportedly was also punched several times on her breasts by officers once she had been hauled into a police van.
Ironically, Turinawe was driving in a two-car convoy, trailing the mayor of Kampala, Elias Lukwago, on their way to attend a rally by 4GC (“For God And My Country” Uganda’s national motto), an organization created after the banning of A4C, when the sexual assault, in public and caught on camera, occurred.
“We condemn any excessive use of violence by police,” the U.S. Department of State spokesperson said, when asked about the manner in which Turinawe was arrested. “We encourage Uganda to investigate allegations of excessive use of force by security services and to hold perpetrators accountable. We also continue to encourage Uganda to take tangible steps to improve its human rights record, particularly with regard to the protection of civil liberties and the human rights of women and of minority populations.”
Uganda’s minister of Internal Affairs, James Baba, today announced that one officer had been suspended and that investigations continue, according to media accounts.
The U.S. also reacted to the banning A4C, or activists for change, by Uganda’s Attorney General, Peter Nyombi. A4C had been organizing a regular protest campaign called Walk-to-Work to highlight rampant inflation and corruption.
“We have expressed our concern, both publicly and privately, about crackdowns on peaceful protests and restrictions on freedom of speech and assembly in Uganda,” the State Department spokesperson said. “As we have stated on numerous occasions, freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly are fundamental human rights and a critical component of democracy.”
Reacting to the arrest yesterday of several female activist who demonstrated in front of Kampala’s Central Police headquarters, by exposing their bras, the spokesperson said: “We call on the Ugandan government to respect the rights of civil society to engage in non-violent demonstrations.”
The women arrested Monday carried signs some of which read: “How would you feel if we squeezed your balls?” They called for the prosecution of the officer who allegedly molested Turinawe and the resignation of national police chief Gen. Kale Kayihura.
Turinawe is reportedly still receiving treatment for injuries sustained during the arrest.
http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/8154/2012-04-24.html
Suppose these brutal (nigger Police) were whites Policemen squissing)breasts of a Nigger Citizen Woman! The Questione to be asked here is When will Black looking Chimpanzees become Civilized and Humans?And How will black race realize their Primitivity and Niggerism?
Egypt Considers Allowing Men to Have Sex With Their Dead Wives’ Bodies
By Jackal News And Agencies 2012-04-26 16:34:37
JACKAL NEWS – A sane person asking themselves the question “Should a man be allowed to have sex with his dead wife’s body?” would likely answer in a way that ranged from a calm but immediate “No.” to an emphatic, shouted “JESUS LAST DANCE OF MARY JANE CHRIST NO!” But these are not sane times. And the thought leaders in the Egyptian Parliament are actually considering enacting a law that would give men the legal right to have sex with their wives up to 6 hours after they die.
The totally nutty “post-death crysex” law didn’t spring from nothing; in fact, last year a Muslim cleric reasoned that since marriage is a bond that lasts beyond death, both men and women are entirely within their rights to have sex with their dead spouse’s bodies. Nothing more erotic than a little rigor mortis of the peen, right, ladies?
Women’s groups, understandably, are upset by this proposition, which is being considered alongside another totally messed up law that would lower the age where it’s legally okay for women to get married to 14 (I guess at that age that I wouldn’t call them “women,” but rather “girls” or “kids,” but tomato, tomahto, right, Egypt?!)
Egyptians aren’t taking this without a healthy WTF pushback, calling the proposition “unbelievable” and a “catastrophe.” It’s also “gross” and “really, unbelievably fucked up.”
It seems that America isn’t the only place where the government has unofficially declared a War on Women. But while America’s efforts have focused mostly on punishing women of reproductive age, Egypt’s newly-elected Islamist majority Parliament has kept itself busy rolling back rights of women living, dead, and pre-pubescent. Aside from what one Egyptian journalist has called the “Farewell Intercourse” law (a much more polite and succinct title than one I’d give it — The WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK ARE YOU PEOPLE CRAZY?! Law) and the “Marry Your Beautiful Female Child Off ASAP” Law, Parliament has attempted to undo most of the legally ensconced rights women in the country have — like the right to petition their husbands for divorce.
During the now-toppled Mubarak regime, an Islamic women’s right to divorce law called Khula was introduced. It allowed women in unhappy or abusive marriages to seek to terminate the union without having to jump through many legal hoops. Before Khlua, women were still technically allowed to ask for divorce, but the petition usually took 10 to 15 years to be granted by the dilly dallying court system. And now the religious Parliament wishes to undo that law, saying divorce “destroys families.” Something tells me that the Muslim Brotherhood currently running Egypt would be at home in Wisconsin.
According to Al-Arabiya, Dr. Mervat al-Talawi, the head of the Egyptian National Council of Women, has launched a personal appeal to the head of Parliament, Dr. Saad al-Katatni, urging him via letter to stop being a misogynist. I’d like to personally urge him to also stop being a creepy weirdo who thinks it’s okay for men to fuck children and corpses.
[Al-Arabiya News]
Kawera. Those primitive goons are whitemen in black skins. They are trained and governed by colonial law and they employ colonial methods of work? One day we shall decolonise our Africa, be independent and free from colonial boundaries, bondage and mentality. Do not forget that is is from the niggers that or the human race came from. Do not conden your roots. Condemn the acts of those individuals and cliques employed to keep Africa the source of raw marterials and a dumping ground for failed policies and their commodities most of which are not safe for the environment.
Those videos are absolutely shocking. Thats absolutely inhumane!
MUSEVENI employs prostitutes as policewomen they are very brutal mostly these women in police-uniforms are lesbians well known in Kampala and in Entebbe!
Museveni is Schizophrenic and his goons! He wants to hand over power to his homosexual Son! (Playboy) Tell him to forget. ICC should issue secret warrant of arrest since killings of Luwelo triangle!