Human Rights defenders across the board in Uganda have re-echoed the urgent need to pass the anti torture bill.
The executive director of African Centre for Treatment and rehabilitation of torture victims Samuel Herbert Nsubuga says calls to have the bill passed into an act have not yielded much yet torture continues.
Torture on the increase in Uganda
Nsubuga says a draft of the prohibition and prevention of the torture bill as presented before Parliament in 2009 but not much has been done yet.
He now challenged the 9th Parliament to take on the process of passing the bill if the victims of torture are to be accorded justice.
A new report by KIOS Development Consultants launched yesterday, shows a decline in torture cases in the country in the last 5 years excluding the events of this year.
The highest form of torture recorded was the systematic beating of victims.
By Isaac Senabulya