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Part II: How Buwembo was jailed for threatening Speaker Among
On February 8, 2022, the Ugandan parliament was unusually charged. One after another, legislators lambasted government over widespread state-sponsored torture. Kampala Central MP, Mohammad Nsereko, had increasingly toned down his criticism of government. But on this day, he was unusually livid. The problem was so severe that that torture victims were owed Shs12 billion in…
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How Makerere erased our freedoms – Part 2
Three decades later, it is telling that at Makerere University, political parties have been abolished, physical campaigns and voting banned, dissenting lecturers forced to leave,…