When they reached the Niagara Hotel, they were arrested at gunpoint,
manacled on the legs and subjected to endless high speed driving into the
outskirts of Kampala throughout the night, while being taunted as terrorists
and threatened with being charged with terrorism and murder offences.
The Applicant was locked up incommunicado with his clients in the cells at
RRU Kireka from 16th to 17th September, 2010, and his belongings were
seized.
He was thereafter transferred to Entebbe International Airport Police Station
where he continued to be detained incommunicado without any contact
from his family until 18th September, 2010.
On the morning of 18th September, 2010, the Applicant was escorted by
Ugandan security officers to an Aircraft of Uganda Airlines destined for
Nairobi, Kenya. His passport, mobile phone and other personal belongings
were handed back to him in that aircraft. No reasons were given to him
about that mistreatment.
This instant Reference challenges the aforesaid acts of ill-treatment to the
Applicant by the 1st and 2nd Respondents.
THE APPLICANT’S CASE
The Applicant’s case is contained in his Reference filed on 30th December,
2011 under Articles 27, 30 and 38 of the Treaty and Rules 1(2) and 24, his
affidavit sworn on 20th March, 2013 and filed on 21st March, 2013 as well as
in his written submissions.
In summary, his case is as follows:
The Applicant alleged that he was arrested upon his arrival at Kampala on
15th September, 2010, where he was detained incommunicado and
interrogated by the agents of the 1st Respondent in complicity with the
agents of the 2nd Respondent from 15th to 18th September, 2010.
REFERENCE NO.11 OF 2011
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