Human Rights & Crime

Police in the Albertine Region are holding five people in connection with the theft of vehicles, reveals the Albertine territorial police Public Relations Officer (PRO), ASP Julius Allan Hakiza. The police officer told Kazi-njema News on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, that the suspects whose identities were concealed for fear of jeopardising investigations, were arrested in […]

The Nwoya Chief Magistrate’s Court has today Tuesday, January 10, 2023, remanded a man on charges of causing the death of his stepson in Nwoya District. Prosecution told court that Morris Opiyo, 23, resident of Latek-odong village in Lungulu sub-county caused the death of Joshua Ogenrwot when he picked him from where he was sleeping […]

A two-year-old baby is admitted to a private health facility in Hoima City after being hit by a police ricochet bullet at Kiryateete Cell in East Division, Hoima City. The baby has been identified as Altakabir Kyakuhaire son to Mr Ashraf Kyakuhaire and Ms Margaret Atuhurra, residents of Bulemwa cell in West Division, Hoima city. […]

A 27-year-old man, Sylvester Asaba, was today (Tuesday) lynched and his body set ablaze by an irate mob in Bukungwe B Cell, Kyomukama Ward in Kagadi Town council after he was allegedly caught red handed with a stolen chicken. The residents who ran amok also put beside his body a chicken he had purportedly stolen […]

Two children from Kakumiro District were among the 10 people who died in the New Year concert stampede at Freedom City in Namasuba, Wakiso District. The deceased identified only as Daniella Kibuuka, 7, and Daniel Kibuuka, 14, children to Dr Emma Kibuuka, were laid to rest Tuesday, January 3, 2023 in Kakumiro where the Vice […]