Mosque leaders win police brutality case

While much of the world has joined protesters in the US, campaigning against police brutality under the slogan #BlackLivesMatter, police in Uganda have been found to have acted unlawfully in raiding a local mosque and the court has ordered that damages must be paid in compensation, writes Carmel Rickard for Legalbrief. The mosque leaders took the case to court claiming that the dawn raid conducted on the mosque ‘insulted’ their religion, stigmatised them and showed that the police gave them less favourable treatment because of their religion. They also claimed that the behaviour of the police was intrusive, draconian, unacceptable and demonstrably unjustified in a free and democratic society.