The Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has directed government to pay for damages, one Grace Kyaterekera to a tune of shs6 million over wrongful detention by police in 2003
The UHRC tribunal headed by the chairperson Mariam Wangadya has directed that, the complaint is allowed and the Attorney General is ordered to pay the complainant a total sum of Shs 6million as general damages for the violation of his right to liberty
The order follows a complaint by Kyaterekera to the commission over wrongful arrest and detention by police in Kayunga in October 2003 on orders of the then Katwe Division Police Commander in Kampala.
He was detained in Kayunga and later transferred to Kampala where he appeared before the Criminal Investigations Division as then was and then detained at the Central Police Station.
