{"id":15548,"date":"2021-08-10T15:34:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T15:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=15548"},"modified":"2021-08-10T14:13:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:13:26","slug":"zaake-wins-torture-case-awarded-shs75m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/zaake-wins-torture-case-awarded-shs75m","title":{"rendered":"Zaake wins torture case, awarded Shs75m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The High Court in Kampala has ordered government to compensate Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament Francis Zaake with Shs75m in compensation for the abuse of his rights when he was arrested by security forces at his home and detained in incommunicado for 10 days.This was after he distributed food to his electorates against a presidential directive banning gatherings to minimise the spread of Covid-19 during the first lockdown last year.In her 34-page ruling yesterday, Justice Esta Nambayo held that a medical report showed that the legislator was tortured and needs to be compensated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this case, a report from the African Centre for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims, has doctor\u2019s recommendations showing that the applicant [MP Zaake] is in great need of regular medical and psychological interventions, like physiotherapy of his back and lower limbs together with verbal individual supportive therapy with psychoeducation and regular reviews by ophthalmologist,\u201d Justice Nambayo ruled. \u201cIt is hereby ordered that the first respondent (government) pays a sum of Shs75m to the applicant (MP Zaake) in compensation of violations of his right and freedoms,\u201d the judge further ruled.<\/p>\n<p>Through his lawyers of Kiiza &amp; Mugisha Advocates, MP Zaake had sued government alongside several senior police officers seeking compensation for torture.The security officers, who were individually sued, include Mr Abel Kandiiho, the head of Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), Mr Alex Mwiine, the Mityana deputy police commander, Mr Elly Womanya, the commandant of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Mr Twesigye Hamdani, Mr Musa Walugembe, the officer-in-charge of SIU, and Mr Haruna Mulungi Nsamba.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to yesterday\u2019s ruling, Mr Eron Kiiza, one of Mr Zaake\u2019s lawyers, said the court should have condemned individual security officers instead of government so that they know that it is expensive to torture innocent Ugandans.\u201cGood ruling in recognising that he (Zaake) was tortured and ordering for his compensation. Court winked at the culprits but they should not take the sympathy for granted as any repetition of torture may not attract similar sympathy,\u201d Mr Kiiza said.BackgroundZaake\u2019s arrestOn April 19, 2020, while at his home in Mityana, Mr Zaake was arrested by Mityana DPC Alex Mwiine and Wamala Regional Police Commander Bob Kagarura for distributing food to people without following the Ministry of Health Covid-19 SOPs.He was detained at Mityana Police Station and later transferred to the Special Investigations Directorate (SID) in Kireka, Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>In court documents, the MP, who subscribes to the National Unity Platform (NUP) party, claimed during the arrest, his house was searched without a warrant issued by court and that while in custody, he was beaten, kicked, his eyes sprayed with pepper, detained in ungazetted facilities and insulted for belonging to his tribe and political party.He was later released before being admitted at Rubaga Hospital to treat his wounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. The High Court in Kampala has ordered government to compensate Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament Francis Zaake with Shs75m in compensation for the abuse of his rights when he was arrested by security forces at his home and detained in incommunicado for 10 days.This was after he distributed food to his electorates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":15547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-15548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zaake wins torture case, awarded Shs75m - 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