Activists criticise phone-tapping
May 31, 2007
HUMAN rights activists have criticised the proposal by the Government to have phone calls tapped.
By Joyce Namutebi
HUMAN rights activists have criticised the proposal by the Government to have phone calls tapped.
“It amounts to an unjustifiable restriction on the right to privacy,†said Livingstone Ssewanyana, the executive director of the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative.
He was speaking at the launch of the Human Rights Status Report in Kampala yesterday.
The Government plans to introduce a Bill to regularise phone-tapping by security organisations.
Ssewanyana claimed that most of the security agencies were not well facilitated and were using highhanded measures due to frustration.
Presenting the findings of the human rights situation in 2006 and the first half of 2007, he said most interviewees questioned the independence of the Electoral Commission.
The human rights body named the Police, the Violent Crime Crack Unit, the Chieftancy of Military Intelligence and the Joint Anti-Terrorism Taskforce as the main perpetrators of torture.
It recommended that a law be enacted to criminalise torture.
HUMAN rights activists have criticised the proposal by the Government to have phone calls tapped.
“It amounts to an unjustifiable restriction on the right to privacy,†said Livingstone Ssewanyana, the executive director of the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative.
He was speaking at the launch of the Human Rights Status Report in Kampala yesterday.
The Government plans to introduce a Bill to regularise phone-tapping by security organisations.
Ssewanyana claimed that most of the security agencies were not well facilitated and were using highhanded measures due to frustration.
Presenting the findings of the human rights situation in 2006 and the first half of 2007, he said most interviewees questioned the independence of the Electoral Commission.
The human rights body named the Police, the Violent Crime Crack Unit, the Chieftancy of Military Intelligence and the Joint Anti-Terrorism Taskforce as the main perpetrators of torture.
It recommended that a law be enacted to criminalise torture.