أوغندا: مطالبة بالإفراج عن المسلمين الأبرياء لدى السلطات

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

طالبت "جمعية الشباب المسلم" الحكومة الأوغندية بإطلاق سراح مجموعة من الشباب المسلم المحتجز بصورة غير قانونية لدى السلطات؛ حيث أكد "إيدي كاسوزي" - رئيس الجمعية - أن الحكومة تعتقل المسلمين دون سبب وتمارس ضدهم التعذيب والمضايقات؛ مما اعتبره اضطهادًا رسميًّا للمسلمين.

وقال في مؤتمر صحفي شهدته مدينة "كمبالا" أن الحكومة تتذرع بقانون مكافحة الإرهاب للتضييق على الشباب المسلم واعتقاله، وإغلاق المدارس الدينية الإسلامية، وتهديد كل من يقوم بتلقين الطلاب والأطفال الدروس الدينية.

وحذر من غضب المجتمع الإسلامي وخروجه في حشود كبيرة للاعتراض ومواجهة هذه الحملات الحكومية التي تستهدف المسلمين؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Muslims accuse Gov’t of persecution

Muslims are accusing the government of selectively using the law to target, harass and intimidate them.

The Uganda Muslim Youth Association (UMYA) on Friday demanded for the release of their brothers in illegal detention, threatening to mobilize themselves if their demand is not heeded.

UMYA national vice chairman Imam Iddih Kasozi leveled the scathing attack on government.

Addressing a news conference in Kampala, Kasozi who was flanked by other association members accused the government of arbitrary arrests, illegal detention, torture, harassment, intimidation and leveling tramped up charges against Muslim community, allegations the police have denied.

The government through the police and the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), he said, was working under the guise of this ‘big ghost’ of terrorism so as to clamp down on Islam, citing the recent closure of Islamic Madrasa’s (schools) and threats to arrest Imam’s of Mosques “threatened with arrests for teaching Muslim children.”

“UMYA is seriously concerned about these matters,” Kasozi said, adding that they have noted since last year a deliberate and systematic smear campaign against Muslims by state organs, labeling Muslims terrorists and child traffickers and a security threat to the country.

“There is nothing like selective application of the law. I may not comment on other issues but my concern is the madrasas. In what state are they? Secondly, should we just free people just because they are Muslims but have committed crimes as individuals?" Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba said.

Reeling examples, Kasozi said more than a dozen Muslims had been arbitrary arrested, detained and tortured by security agencies on charges of terrorism or radicalizing Muslim children. Some, he said, to date are being held in unknown places.

“We demand that all those detained illegally should be released or produced in courts of law without delay. We are taking note of all those responsible for these actions and at an appropriate time we shall not hesitate to publically mobilize the Muslim community to come out in large numbers to demand for their rights and/ or take legal action against them in their individual capacities,” he said.