LEGISLATORS DETAINED
Uganda police disperse protesters in capital as unrest continues
Kampala — Ugandan police fired tear gas to disperse a demonstration in the capital on Monday as protests against the beating of detained legislators continued for a second day. Police spokesman Emilian Kayima said that police had been deployed to stop a riot that had broken out in a market in downtown Kampala. "Some groups of youths have participated in a riot and they are being handled ... we’re stopping the riot." Unrest began last week when five opposition legislators were arrested and two allegedly were tortured, part of what the protesters call a pattern of repression by President Yoweri Museveni’s government. Government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo denied that security personnel had deliberately beaten up the legislators and others. "Some of these injuries could have been sustained in the course of the [convoy] confrontation," he said. In power since 1986, Museveni is accused of stifling dissent through intimidation, beatings, detentions and prosecutions on trumped-up charges. C...
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