Uganda: State Agents Must Stop the Double Standards

22 September 2017
editorial

Uganda Human Rights Commission chairman Medi Kaggwa has accused the state of exercising double standards in the way its agents deal with activists opposed to the amendment of article 102 (b) of the constitution that deals with presidential age limits.

"I have watched television and the manner in which the groups opposed to the amendment are handled, [and] arrested, is bad, compared to the supporters of the bill, who are given police protection," Kaggwa told journalists on Tuesday.

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