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A magistrate court in Uganda charged at least 42 youths for offences allegedly committed during a banned anti-corruption protest on Tuesday, and remanded them in custody, local media reported.
Protesters marched on different streets in the capital Kampala on Tuesday shouting slogans and holding placards denouncing corruption by lawmakers.
According to Human Rights Watch, the arrests demonstrated the government of President Yoweri Museveni’s “lack of respect for people’s right to protest and express themselves.”
“Instead of being arrested and blocked from protesting, those people should have been given a platform and listened to,” Oryem Nyeko, senior Africa researcher at HRW said.
