Johnson Byabashaija

Politics & Policy

US sanctions prison chief over human rights abuses

Johnson Byabashaija heads an organisation that has tortured government critics and LGBTQI+ people
Johnson Byabashaija, the commissioner general of prisons. 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.