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Ugandan president’s son named in ICC complaint over abductions and abuse Jason Burke Africa correspondent Lawyers acting for the victims of a wave of abductions and torture by security forces in Uganda have named senior military commanders, including the president’s son, in a complaint to the international criminal court. Prosecutors at the ICC are already reviewing an earlier submission from the opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, the former reggae singer known as Bobi Wine, describing widespread human rights abuses before presidential polls held in January. Presiden...

‘It was a torture chamber’: Ugandans abducted in vicious crackdown Jason Burke and Samuel Okiror in Kampala © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Jérôme Delay/AP Hundreds of ordinary people suspected of supporting opposition politicians in Uganda have been snatched off the streets by security services in the worst wave of repression in the east African country for decades. Many suffered systematic torture, detention in harsh conditions in often secret prisons and the denial of access to relatives or lawyers. The abductions, which were described in detail to the Guard...