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Thursday, April 17, 2003 - 03:00
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Human rights [2]
Issue Number: 
107 [3]
Article-Summary: 

A report released this week by the Uganda Human Rights Commission has accused government security agents of torture. Margaret Sekagya, of the human rights commission told IRIN that the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) - a military intelligence security department in the Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) - and the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) - part of the ministry of internal affairs, which controls internal security - had been heavily implicated in the report.

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Human Security [4]
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Country: 
Uganda [6]

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