Human rights violations including extrajudicial killings in Uganda in recent years have raised the concern of a panel of United Nations experts.
The UN Human Rights Committee in findings released Wednesday also urged authorities in the East African country to repeal a recently enacted law that prescribes the death penalty for some homosexual acts.
The committee pointed to reports of arbitrary arrests and detention by police and security forces targeting political opponents, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, sex workers, and LGBTQ+ people.
Uganda's security forces face growing allegations of brutality in their encounters with perceived opponents of the government of President Yoweri Museveni, a U.S. ally who has held power since 1986.
Cases of extrajudicial killings “should be looked upon and perpetrators punished,” the UN panel said, urging Uganda’s security forces to “stick strictly to the principles of necessity and proportionality.”
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