Uganda v Tukwasibwe [HCT-00-ICD-CM-009-2022] (24 June 2024)
Case Highlights: Director of a Community Based Organization demanded sex from multiple victims in exchange for sponsorship and other assistance
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking In Children
Case Number: HCT-00-ICD-CM-009-2022
Judge: Hon. Justice Mr. Richard Wejuli Wabwire
Date of Sentencing Order: 24 June 2025
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Citation: Uganda v Tukwasibwe [HCT-00-ICD-CM-009-2022] (24 June 2024)
Uganda V Mucunguzi & Another [HCT-00-CR-SC-0304-2025] (24 March 2025)
Accused 1 brought a 16-year-old female to the home of Accused 2 to work as a babysitter, instead she was sexually exploited including not being paid her wages.
Case Highlights: Accused 1 brought a 16-year-old female to the home of Accused 2 to work as a babysitter, instead she was sexually exploited including not being paid her wages.
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking In Children
Case Number: HCT-00-CR-SC-0304-2025
Judge: Hon. Lady Justice Margaret Mutonyi, JHC
Date of Judgement: 24 March 2025
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Uganda v Agaba [HCT-00-ICD-SC-0018-2022] (8 December 2023)
Accused promised to employ victim at his bar he had not yet opened but instead used her for sexual exploitation.
Case Highlights: Accused promised to employ victim at his bar he had not yet opened but instead used her for sexual exploitation.
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking in Children
Case Number: HCT-00-ICD-SC-0018-2022
Judge: Hon. Mr. Justice Bashaija K. Andrew
Date of Judgement: 8 December 2024
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Uganda v Kato [HCT-00-ICD-SC-0011-2022] (9 November 2023)
The accused, a friend of the victim’s grandmother, offered to the victim’s parents to enroll the victim in a scholarship program, but instead, he kept her in his home and regularly defiled her.
Case Highlights: The accused, a friend of the victim’s grandmother, offered to the victim’s parents to enroll the victim in a scholarship program, but instead, he kept her in his home and regularly defiled her.
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking In Children
Case Number: HCT-00-ICD-SC-0011-2022
Judge: Hon. Justice Susan Okalany
Date of Judgement: 9 November 2023
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Uganda v Muwonge 11 Others [HCT-00-ICD-SC-0001-2019] (17 May 2023)
Accused, with others, took his 4 children from their mother’s home and deceived the mom by lying about where he was taking them. He left them at an ADF camp to be trained in Islam and the girls “married off” to fighters.
Case Highlights: Accused, with others, took his 4 children from their mother’s home and deceived the mom by lying about where he was taking them. He left them at an ADF camp to be trained in Islam and the girls “married off” to fighters.
Type of Case: Aggravated Trafficking In Children
Case Number: HCT-00-ICD-SC-0001-2019
Judge: Hon. Lady Justice Alice Komuhangi Khaukha
Date of Judgement: 17 May 2023
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Uganda v Mansur & 6 Others [HCT-00-CD-CR-SC-0005-2022] (17 April 2023)
The accused persons recruited the victims, many of whom were the wives and children of the accused, to force them to join the ADF by lying about the location they were being transported. The accused were intercepted near the DRC border.
Case Highlights: The accused persons recruited the victims, many of whom were the wives and children of the accused, to force them to join the ADF by lying about the location they were being transported. The accused were intercepted near the DRC border.
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking In Children
Case Number: HCT-00-CD-CR-SC-0005-2022
Judge: Hon. Lady Justice Alice Komuhangi Khaukha
Date of Judgement: 17 April 2023
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Uganda v Wakwaya [HCT–00–ICD–SC–001–2022] (13 April 2023)
Complainant’s children were taken from their grandmother’s house under the pretext that the accused was transporting them back to their mother in Mbale, when he in fact took them to an ADF camp - the children have not been found.
Case Highlights: Complainant’s children were taken from their grandmother’s house under the pretext that the accused was transporting them back to their mother in Mbale, when he in fact took them to an ADF camp - the children have not been found.
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking In Children
Case Number: HCT–00–ICD–SC–001–2022
Judge: Hon Justice Mr. Bashaija K. Andrew
Date of Judgement: 13 April 2023
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Uganda v Dhikusooka & 4 Others [Criminal Case No. HTC-00-ICD-SC-0005-2021] (4 April 2023)
5 ADF members worked together to recruit new members for the ADF, transported them from various places in Uganda to the DRC, where some were intercepted, and others made it to the ADF military camps.
Case Highlights: 5 ADF members worked together to recruit new members for the ADF, transported them from various places in Uganda to the DRC, where some were intercepted, and others made it to the ADF military camps.
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking In Children; Trafficking In Persons
Case Number: Criminal Case No. HTC-00-ICD-SC-0005-2021
Judge: Hon. Justice Mr. Bashaija K. Andrew
Date of Judgement: 4 April 2023
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Uganda v Muhwezi & 19 Others [HCT-00-ICD-CR-SC-004-2021] (15 November 2022)
Accused, with others, deceptively recruited multiple girls to work as prostitutes at his lodge.
Case Highlights: Accused, with others, deceptively recruited multiple girls to work as prostitutes at his lodge.
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking in Children
Case Number: HCT-00-ICD-CR-SC-004-2021
Judge: Hon. Justice Susan Okalany
Date of Judgement: 15 November 2022
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Uganda v Ssebuyungo & 5 Others [HCT-14-CR-SC-0129-2019] (24 May 2022)
Accused deceived the victim in order to sacrifice her. Investigations revealed other human remains.
Case Highlights: Accused deceived the victim in order to sacrifice her. Investigations revealed other human remains.
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking In Persons
Case Number: HCT-14-CR-SC-0129-2019
Judge: Hon. Lady Justice Margaret Mutonyi, JHC
Date of Judgement: 24 May 2022
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Uganda v Maliki [HCT-00-ICD-SC-0003-2021] (6 May 2022)
The accused took the victim (a girl child) into his home as part of their love relationship, and she became pregnant. When she refused to have an abortion at his request, he threw her out of the house.
Case Highlights: The accused took the victim (a girl child) into his home as part of their love relationship, and she became pregnant. When she refused to have an abortion at his request, he threw her out of the house.
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking In Children
Case Number: HCT-00-ICD-SC-0003-2021
Judge: Hon. Justice Susan Okalany
Date of Judgement: 6 May 2022
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Uganda v Sentongo & Another [HCT-00-CR-SC-0227-2018] (1 May 2022)
Accused instructed his niece to obtain a 5-month-old girl, and upon receiving the baby administered herbs and murdered her.
Case Highlights: Accused instructed his niece to obtain a 5-month-old girl, and upon receiving the baby administered herbs and murdered her.
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking In Children
Case Number: HCT-00-CR-SC-0227-2018
Judge: Hon. Justice Michael Elubu
Date of Judgement: 1 May 2022
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Prosecutor v Dominic Ongwen [ICC-02/04-01/15] (4 February 2021)
Case Highlights: On 4 February 2021, the Internation Criminal Court (ICC) Trial Chamber IX found Dominic Ongwen guilty for a total of 61 crimes comprising crimes against humanity and war crimes, committed in Northern Uganda between 1 July 2002 and 31 December 2005. On 6 May 2021, Trial Chamber IX sentenced Dominic Ongwen to 25 years of imprisonment.
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking in Persons, Aggravated Trafficking in Children; Trafficking in Persons
Case Number: ICC-02/04-01/15
Judges: Judge Bertram Schmitt, Presiding Judge; Judge Péter Kovács; Judge Raul C. Pangalangan
Date of Judgement: 4 February 2021
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Umutoni v Uganda [Criminal Appeal No. 855 of 2014] (12 June 2019)
The accused appealed against the decisions of the high court in a case where she took two Rwandese teenage girls to Uganda under the guise of obtaining jobs. While there, the girls were repeatedly raped by their male hosts.
Case Highlights: Accused appealed against the decision of the high court in a 2014 case where she took two Rwandese teenage girls to Uganda under the guise of obtaining jobs. While there, the girls were repeatedly raped by their male hosts.
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking In Children
Case Number: Criminal Appeal No. 855 of 2014
Judge: Hon. Mr. Justice E.K. Muhanguzi, J.
Date of Judgement: 12 June 2019
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Uganda v Alimocan [Criminal Sessions Case No. 0114 of 2018] (6 September 2018)
Accused, disguised as a mother who just gave birth to a premature baby, was admitted into a health clinic and stole a 3-day old baby from the mother.
Case Highlights: Accused, disguised as a mother who just gave birth to a premature baby, was admitted into a health clinic and stole a 3-day old baby from the mother.
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking In Children
Case Number: Criminal Sessions Case No. 0114 of 2018
Judge: Hon. Justice Stephen Mubiru
Date of Judgement: 6 September 2018
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El Termewy v Awdi & 3 Others [Civil Suit No. 95 of 2012] (20 January 2015)
Plaintiff, a Lebanese national, was recruited from Beirut to work in Uganda as a manager but instead worked various duties in inhuman working and living conditions, and had his passport confiscated.
Case Highlights: Plaintiff, a Lebanese national, was recruited from Beirut to work in Uganda as a manager but instead worked various duties in inhuman working and living conditions, and had his passport confiscated.
Case Type: Trafficking In Persons
Case Number: Civil Suit No. 95 of 2012
Judge: Hon. Lady Justice Elizabeth Musoke
Date of Judgement: 20 January 2015
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Uganda v Mudeega [Criminal Session Case No. 166 of 2011] (30 May 2013)
Accused, with others, paid a 9-year-old boy’s father to obtain the child with intent to sell him to a buyer in Kenya.
Case Highlights: Accused, with others, paid a 9-year-old boy’s father to obtain the child with intent to sell him to a buyer in Kenya.
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking In Persons
Case Number: Criminal Sessions Case No. 166 of 2011
Judge: The Hon. Lady Justice Flavia Senoga Anglin
Date of Judgement: 30 May 2013
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Uganda V Natukunda [HCT-00-ICD-CR-SC-001-2012] (1 March 2013)
Accused recruited victims by deception to work in shops in China but instead forced them into prostitution.
Case Highlights: Accused recruited victims by deception to work in shops in China but instead forced them into prostitution.
Case Type: Aggravated Trafficking In Persons
Case Number: HCT-00-ICD-CR-SC-001-2012
Judge: Hon. Lady Justice Elizabeth Ibanda Nahamya
Date of Judgement: 1 March 2013
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