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Document #1036392
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
[a]mong the persons held by the Government are a number of political detainees and prisoners, most of them on a charge of treason. In January the Government dropped charges against 14 of 18 northern politicians who had been arrested and charged with treason in 1991. Two Democratic Party officials were arrested and charged with treason in January. ...The six politicians who were still being held on treason charges at the end of January were acquitted or released for lack of evidence during the first half of 1992. ...At year's end, about 130 Ugandans arrested between 1986 and 1992 were believed to be awaiting trial or court-martial for treason... (1993, 285).The source does not refer to the political affiliation of the arrested people, nor does it specify their exact dates of arrest.
An Amnesty International report refers to
the release of:
13 prisoners of conscience by the Uganda High Court on 14 January 1992, after charges of treason against them were dropped. However, six men remain charged with treason, five of whom are remanded in Luzira Prison, Kampala. ...In March and April 1991, 18 local and national political leaders were arrested and charged with treason. Two were subsequently released on bail; Andrew Adimola, due to ill-health, and Daniel Omara Atubo, who has now been charged with the lesser charge of sedition. ...Of the original 18, the three remaining prisoners of conscience are Zachary Olum, Irene Apiu Julu (prominent Democratic Party leaders) and Tiberio Okeny. A further two prominent Democratic Party officials, Robert Kitariko and Dr. Ojok Mulozi, were arrested in mid-January 1992, charged with treason, and remain imprisoned with the others as prisoners of conscience (1 Feb. 1992).Additional information on the above subjects is currently unavailable to the DIRB.
Amnesty International. 12 February 1992.
"Weekly Update NWS 11/06/91." (AI Index: NWS 11/06/91). London:
Amnesty International.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1992. 1993. U.S. Department of State. Washington:
U.S. Government Printing Office.
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