Human Rights Watch accuses Uganda military of arbitrary detentions and crackdown on critics

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Uganda’s military is arbitrarily arresting government critics, holding them incommunicado and using politically motivated prosecutions to silence dissent, according to a new report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The rights organization alleges that since mid-June 2026, security forces have unlawfully detained at least five critics of President Yoweri Museveni and the …

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