The US has imposed financial sanctions on Johnson Byabashaija, the commissioner general of prisons, in a review and expansion of its visa restriction policy targeting Ugandan officials it says are complicit in human rights abuses.
The US Treasury department said on Friday that Mr Byabashaija was “the leader of an entity that has engaged in serious human rights abuses,” adding that Uganda Prisons Service employees have tortured its prisoners, including government critics and LGBTQI+ (non-heterosexual) people.
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