EU deplores 'brutal treatment' of Ugandan MPs after president's convoy stoned


FILE PHOTO: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni attends an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Jan. 28, 2018. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo

KAMPALA (Reuters) - European Union diplomats in Uganda on Friday deplored "brutal treatment" of lawmakers arrested over a stoning of President Yoweri Museveni's convoy, and a rights body called for Ugandan authorities to prosecute the perpetrators of the alleged abuses.

Government spokesman Ofwono Opondo denied security personnel had deliberately beaten up the lawmakers and others. "Some of these injuries could have been sustained in the course of the (convoy) confrontation," he said.

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