Sep 13, 2007Quickie Link: Ugandan Court Agrees to Hear Case of Juliet Victor Mukasa
By vanrozenheim
(Uganda) - The High Court has agreed to hear the case of two women who claim they were tortured by the Police and the LCI chairman of Kireka. Justice Stella Arach-Amoko overruled the Attorney General's objection to the hearing of the case, who had asked the court to dismiss the case, arguing that the applicants used the wrong procedure. In the case, Yvonne Oyoo, a Kenyan student of Makerere University, and Victor Juliet Mukasa, a Ugandan human rights activist, alleged that the Kireka LC1 chief and the local Police tortured, molested and treated them in a degrading manner after arresting them because they were Lesbians.
