Uganda: Mukasa and Another v Attorney-General (2008) AHRLR 248 (UgHC 2008)   [13.] The Chairman shouted across the other people demanding rudely to talk to her immediately. She asked him kindly to wait a moment to enable her to talk to the second applicant first, but the Chairman shouted ‘now’. At that point, she received a call from the second applicant who sounded very distressed and told her that she had been arrested and that the police were looking for her (Ms Mukasa). The second applicant pleaded with her saying ‘don’t go home please. They have arrested me and it is you that they want’.   [14.] The Chairman then rudely told her that he had arrested the first applicant. He ordered her to be at the police post at 10 am the following day. When she asked him the reason, he just shouted, ‘I want you there’. When she inquired further about the reason why she was being ordered to go to the police station, the Chairman told her verbally that she was unlawfully accommodating someone at her house. He did not produce any paper stating any such thing when she insisted, the Chairman just shouted, ‘you must’. When she told him that she would need to first consult her lawyers, the Chairman began shouting before everyone that she did not have manners. She was then advised by a human rights defender to leave the area.   [15.] The following day, she went to the police station accompanied by a lawyer. When she inquired whether there was any file opened with respect to the second applicant and whether any charges were pending against either of them and if so, what the charges were. The police said there were no pending charges and that she could have back her documents.   [16.] As she had not been inside her house since the time of the raid, she didn’t know what had 5 / 19