Joint CSO statement on enforced disappearances of Ugandan citizens since November 2020
- 17 March 2021 -
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Since November 2020, Uganda has seen a wave of arrest and detention of its citizens by security operatives in the run-up to its 2021 elections. On 4 March 2021, the Minister of Internal Affairs released a list of 177 names to Parliament of missing Ugandans in detention following arrest. Earlier, in response to a public outcry over the disappearances, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni had acknowledged the arrests of 242.
Joint CSO statement on enforced disappearances of Ugandan citizens since November 2020
