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What you need to know:
- According to UK’s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, the UK has designated eight individuals under theur Global Human Rights regime, which allows it (the UK) to stop those involved in serious human rights abuses and violations from entering the country, channelling money through UK banks, or profiting from our economy.
- The UK sanctions come three years after the United States government through its treasury department imposed sanctions Gen Kayihura for reportedly engaging in corruption and human rights abuses.
The United Kingdom (UK) government through its Global Human Rights regime has imposed sanctions on former Police chief Gen Edward Kale Kayihura for allegedly superintending over human rights violations including torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment while he was still at the helm of Uganda Police Force.
“General Kale Kayihura, the Inspector General of Police in Uganda from
2005 to 2018. While Kayihura was in charge, he oversaw multiple units
responsible for human rights violations including torture and other
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment,”reads part of the
December 9, 2022 statement issued by UK’s Foreign Secretary James
Cleverly.
According to Cleverly, the new wave of sanctions targets
corrupt actors, and those violating and abusing human rights, as well as
perpetrators of sexual violence in conflict.
The new wave,
co-ordinated with UK’s international partners, were announced as the
world marked International Anti-Corruption Day and Human Rights Day.
The package includes individuals and entities involved in a wide range
of grievous activities – including the torture of prisoners, the
mobilisation of troops to rape civilians, and systematic atrocities.
“It
is our duty to promote free and open societies around the world. Today
our sanctions go further to expose those behind the heinous violations
of our most fundamental rights to account. We are committed to using
every lever at our disposal to secure a future of freedom over fear.
Since gaining new powers following our exit from the EU, the Foreign,
commonwealth and Development Office has used targeted sanctions across
multiple regimes to hold those committing these egregious acts, whether
in Russia, Iran, Myanmar, or elsewhere, to account,” Mr Cleverly said.
According to him, the UK has designated eight individuals under theur
Global Human Rights regime, which allows it (the UK) to stop those
involved in serious human rights abuses and violations from entering the
country, channelling money through UK banks, or profiting from our
economy.
Gen Kayihura was sanctioned alongside Mian Abdul Haq, a
Muslim Cleric from Pakistan, responsible for forced conversions and
marriages of girls and women from religious minorities; Sadrach Zelodon
Rocha and Yohaira Hernandez Chirino, the mayor and deputy mayor of
Matagalpa in Nicaragua. The two are said to be involved in promoting and
supporting grievous violations of human rights.
The UK also sanctioned Andrey Tishenin, member of the Russian Federal
Security Service in Crimea, and Artur Shambazov, a senior detective in
the Autonomous republic of Crimea. The pair tortured Ukrainian Oleksandr
Kostenko in 2015.
On the list of sanction sis also Valentin Oparin,
Major of Justice for the Russian Federation, and Oleg Tkachenko, Head of
Public Prosecutions for the Rostov region. Both are accused of
obstructing complaints of torture, with Tkachenko also using torture to
extract testimony.
The UK sanctions come three years after the United States government through its treasury department imposed sanctions Gen Kayihura for reportedly engaging in corruption and human rights abuses.
The US government on September 13, 2019 claimed that Kayihura directly supervised the torture of prisoners at the Nalufenya Police Special investigations facility in Jinja.
"As the IGP for the UPF, Kayihura led individuals from the UPF's
Flying Squad Unit, which has engaged in the inhumane treatment of
detainees at the Nalufenya Special Investigations Center (NSIC). Flying
Squad Unit members reportedly used sticks and rifle butts to abuse NSIC
detainees, and officers at NSIC are accused of having beaten one of the
detainees with blunt instruments to the point that he lost
consciousness. Detainees also reported that after being subjected to the
abuse they were offered significant sums of money if they confessed to
their involvement in a crime," the US said in a September 13, 2019
statement.
General Kale Kayihura was Uganda's Inspector General of
Police for nearly 13 years, making his tenure the longest in the Police
force's history.
Gen Kayihura was fired by President Yoweri Museveni in March 2018 and later arrested.
He was then arraigned in the military court-martial on several charges.
He was once seen as one of the most powerful military officers in the country before falling out of favour with the President.
Mr
Museveni blamed the police for failing to curb rising insecurity in the
country including murders and kidnappings. After sacking Gen Kayihura
and the Minister of Security Henry Tumukunde, the president said he had
“uprooted the bean weevil that had infiltrated the police force.”
During
his tenure, Gen Kayihura was accused, mostly by human rights watchdogs,
of militarizing the police and heavy-handedness in dealing with
anti-government protests.
Several of his allies, including senior
police officers, have been arrested for alleged illegal arrests, kidnap
and repatriation of Rwandan refugees.
The police force has also seen a raft of leadership changes since then.
