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Original Post Date: 2003-12-12 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 12/12/2003 6:16:27 AM
Uganda: New Methods of Torture…
THE Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) yesterday said security forces had changed tactics of torturing suspects to beat detection by the human rights organisations.
The commission told Parliament that despite the reduction in the torture cases, the forces had devised methods of torturing suspects, especially to extract confessions.
The commission, led by the chairperson, Margaret Ssekaggya, was appearing before the committee on legal and parliamentary affairs chaired by Dora Byamukama (Mwenge South) to present the 2001/2002 Human Rights Report.
“The practice of torture remains real in many places of incarceration. It has been taking place in prisons, in Police cells and in illegal detention places,” Ssekaggya said.
She told Parliament that 1,429 complaints were received in 2002, out of which 210 were on torture.
Commissioner Consta- ntine Karusoke said torture was becoming a permanent feature in detention camps.
She said suspects were tortured using electric shock, blunt instruments and other forms that cannot be detected by the eye.
Commissioner Joel Aliro Omara said the commission had pictorial evidence to support the findings.
He complained that most perpetrators of torture were not punished.
He added that the Government had failed to honour cases where the commission had ordered compensation of torture victims.
Parliament heard that since 2001, Government had not honoured 46 compensation orders by the commission.
Ssekaggya said the compensation ranged from sh100,000 to sh50m.
The commission said the law should be amended to make state security officers found guilty of torture to compensate their victims.
The commission decried the poor living conditions of Police and prisons officers.
“It is futile to call for the improvement in the condition of suspects without improving those of their custodians,” Ssekaggya said.
The commission said the Police was becoming aware of the 48-hour constitutional requirement detaining suspects.
However, the report said, Police were frustrated by inadequate facilitation, irregular court sessions and interference by politicians.
Source: AllAfrica.com
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200312110477.htm…br>