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Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 5/17/23 Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 5/17/23

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.

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Uganda Case Law, Aggravated Trafficking In Persons TIPMAP Uganda 4/17/23 Uganda Case Law, Aggravated Trafficking In Persons TIPMAP Uganda 4/17/23

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. 

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Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 4/13/23 Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 4/13/23

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. 

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Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 4/13/23 Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 4/13/23

Uganda v Rwigambwa [HCT-00-ICD-SC-0006-2021] (13 April 2023)

Victim unequivocally agreed to donate his kidney in exchange for material gain.

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Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 4/4/23 Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 4/4/23

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. 

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Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 3/22/23 Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 3/22/23

Spencer & Another v Uganda [Criminal Misc. Application No. 020 of 2023] (22 March 2023)

The applicants were foreign nationals from the United States charged with aggravated trafficking in children but were granted bail due to exigent circumstances after finding appropriate sureties. Court used its discretion to grant bail when the medical report was inconclusive. 

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Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 3/20/23 Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 3/20/23

Uganda v Nakazzi [HCT-00-CD-SC-0021-2022] (20 March 2023)

Accused hired victim for domestic work, but Victim ended up working in a massage parlour where she was ultimately defiled.

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Uganda Case Law, Aggravated Trafficking in Children TIPMAP Uganda 11/11/22 Uganda Case Law, Aggravated Trafficking in Children TIPMAP Uganda 11/11/22

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.

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Uganda Case Law, Aggravated Trafficking in Children TIPMAP Uganda 10/27/22 Uganda Case Law, Aggravated Trafficking in Children TIPMAP Uganda 10/27/22

Kato & 4 Others v Uganda [Criminal Misc. Application No. 0006 of 2022] (27 October 2022)

Parties disputed the court’s jurisdiction to hear the bail application, but the court found it did have jurisdiction and set the matter for hearing.   

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Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 10/16/22 Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 10/16/22

Uganda v Umutoni [HCT-00-ICD-CR-SC-003-2014] (16 October 2022)

Accused took two Rwandese teenage girls to Uganda under the guise of obtaining jobs. While there, the girls were repeatedly raped by their male hosts.  

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Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 9/4/22 Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 9/4/22

Uganda v Kyalimpa & Another [HCT-00-ICD-SC-002-2020] (4 October 2022)

Co-accused forged and presented a false clearance list from the Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development to attempt to send 57 migrant workers abroad.

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Uganda Case Law, Aggravated Trafficking In Persons TIPMAP Uganda 5/24/22 Uganda Case Law, Aggravated Trafficking In Persons TIPMAP Uganda 5/24/22

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. 

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Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 5/6/22 Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 5/6/22

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.

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Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 5/4/22 Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 5/4/22

Uganda v Nsungwa [HCT-00-ICD-SC-0007-2021) (4 May 2022)

Accused arranged a “love affair” between her brother and the victim and paid for Victim’s transportation to meet her brother. He had sex with Victim, then gave her 30,000 shillings, and left Victim stranded once the accused informed him the victim was reported missing.

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Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 5/1/22 Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 5/1/22

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. 

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TIPMAP Uganda 3/10/22 TIPMAP Uganda 3/10/22

Uganda v Andam [Criminal Revision Cause No.0008 of 2021] (10 March 2022)

Section 2(1)(a) or 2(1)(b) is the defining section and is required in conjunction with section 3 or 4, as applicable, when charging an aggravated TIP case. 

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Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 11/12/21 Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 11/12/21

Kato Kajubi v Uganda [Criminal Appeal No. 20 of 2014] (12 November 2021)

Accused, together with two others, decapitated the victims head and dismembered the private parts. 

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Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 10/8/21 Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 10/8/21

Uganda v Mpagi Didas [HCT-00-ICD-CR-SC-004-2020] (12 October 2021)

Headmaster recruited child-victims to attend his school where he sexually exploited them. 

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Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 9/19/21 Uganda Case Law TIPMAP Uganda 9/19/21

Namata v Uganda [Criminal Misc. Application No. 166 of 2021] (19 September 2021)

A juvenile was charged with aggravated trafficking; bail application was granted because she was on remand for a year longer than the statutory maximum. 

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Uganda Case Law, Aggravated Trafficking in Children TIPMAP Uganda 3/18/21 Uganda Case Law, Aggravated Trafficking in Children TIPMAP Uganda 3/18/21

Mukalazi v Uganda [Criminal Application No. 27 of 2021] (18 March 2021)

Applicant submitted a certified medical report in support of bail application, but bail was denied as his condition was not a qualifying exceptional circumstance. 

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