{UAH} Who undressed Fatuma? Police block FDC women activists marching to parliament-goons at it again

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Police has this morning intercepted a group of women activists marching to parliament over police brutality. Courtesy photo 

By Monitor Reporter

Posted  Wednesday, October 14  2015 at  12:06

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Police has this morning blocked FDC women activists marching to parliament over unfair arrests and treatment.
The women led by FDC secretary for mobilization, Ms Ingrid Turinawe were on Wednesday intercepted by Police along Katonga road as they headed to parliament to petition speaker Rebecca Kadaga over what they called police brutality against women.

The women who were chanting "we shall overcome" said they were fed up of police mistreatment.
This comes a day after women activists on Tuesday announced a plan to hold a peaceful demonstration following an incident that saw FDC's official Fatuma Naigaga undressed during police arrest last Saturday. The video of the incident has since gone viral on social media, attracting all sorts of criticism from the public.
Under their umbrella body, Women's Democracy Group, the activists said the act by police is deliberate and pre-planned against women interested in leadership.

However, police spokesperson, Mr Fred Enanga in the recent media reports is quoted saying, the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) studying Ms Naigaga's file to establish whether she can be arraigned in court and charged with indecent exposure.

Ms Naigaga is not the first woman to suffer police brutality. In May this year, Hamida Nassimbwa was also stripped and ended up on the ground as police broke up a procession of opposition activists headed to parliament. Nassimbwa was admitted at Doctors Medical Centre in Mpererwe nursing an ankle fracture and a swollen index finger. A similar case happened in 2012 when police officers stripped and assaulted political activist Ingrid Turinawe. Ms Turinawe later sued the police and government for allegedly squeezing her breast while she went to attend a political rally.

Procedure Act states that in making an arrest, the officer can 'touch or confine the body of the person to be arrested unless there is submission to custody by word or action' by the person being arrested.
The Act further stipulates that if there is resistance to arrest, the officer making the arrest "may use all means necessary to effect the arrest."
However, "Nothing in this section shall be deemed to justify the use of greater force than was reasonable in the particular circumstances in which it was employed or was necessary for the apprehension of the offender," Part II of the Act states.

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