This was revealed in the 13^th Annual report on the status of Human Rights 2010 by the Uganda Human Rights Commission presented to the speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga by the chairperson of the Uganda Human Rights commission Med Kagwa.

Torture on the increase in Uganda

Kagwa said that the commission has come across suspected  cases of torture  in government prisons  which include Bugungu prison , Lotuturu prison  farm, kitgum prison , Dokolo prison , Lira central police station ,Erute AND Awer prisons.

He asked parliament to pass the Anti torture bill into law to enable law

Enforcement to punish the offenders.

He also decried the poor hygiene in prisons inspected by the commission where by the inmates still use buckets as toilets when flush toilets run out of water instead of using pit toilets.

The report also indicate that in some prisons there is a problem of lice and bed bugs in butuntumula prison in Luwero and mukono police station and  still show that in some prison inmate sleep on bare floor and on rags of torn pieces of blankets and others sleep on papyrus mats .

By Isaac Senabulya

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Hussein Kyanjo MP Makindye West

Kyanjo last week announced the campaign to expose all security personnel who he says have been using excessive force against opposition walk to work protestors.

Kyanjo says he going to post all the pictures of people who were involved in brutalizing Ugandan and other duty things the government has been doing to the opposition members.

The pictures are to future on his web site called “free Uganda” and other social networks like face book, twitter, fulker among other.

By Mugisa Isaac Mathias

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