New riot laws may hurt more not few

President Yoweri Museveni announced on Tuesday that he wants to see suspects of rape, murder and rioting - among other things - treated differently by Uganda’s courts. He said just hours before his inauguration that he intends to push through constitutional amendments in the first months of his new term that will mark a decisive turn in the way such suspects are handled.

Quite shockingly he went on, “I will put before the incoming Parliament an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting

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