Ronald Ainebyoona, a second year student of Law at Makerere University is finalising with necessary steps in filling a suit against the Ugandan Police for alleged torture inflicted on him on December 7, 2016 while in custody after he was arrested for protesting the closure the campus.
Through his lawyer, Ladislaus Rwakafuzi, a renown city advocate, Ainebyoona has already written to the African Centre for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (ACTV) to have his medical examination report released to justify the claims.
“They suspended my legs on a string and beat me using a bar of white star washing soap. They packed sand in a mineral water bottle with which they used to beat me in my ribs and my flesh would swell. They squeezed my testicles so much and I got constant stomachache,” Ainebyoona narrated.
When asked why they were doing all this to him, he said the policemen wanted him to disclose the relationship he has with FDC’s former presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye.
He says he is still finalising with his lawyer about the actual figure to tag but he wants about Shs2billion in damages from the police in a suit he hopes to tussle out with the Attorney General.
Ainebyoona and three others were arrested by Police in Kampala after they held placards and protested the closure of Makerere University by the President on November 1, 2016.
The other three were released on bail consequently but Ainebyoona didn’t secure bail and he spent two more weeks in custody at Luzira.
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