The Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has commenced a probe into allegations that some of the suspects arrested during the anti-corruption protests last week were sodomised.
The claims of sodomy against the security forces first surfaced last Thursday when social justice activist and Makerere University lecturer and satirist Prof Jimmy Spire Ssentongo highlighted it on his X-platform, formerly Twitter.
Prof Ssentongo wrote that some of the youths released told him they were subjected to anal rape, a claim that both the police and army have dismissed.
He challenged the police to answer how they could have degenerated and sunk into infamy by forcing a young male suspect into the sordid act.
Mr Lamex Omara Apitta, a member of the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC), said they have already visited various police stations over the claims.
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