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Cutting of prisoners’ hair infringes on religious rights – MP Tebandeke

Published by Watchdog Uganda By watchdog · 28 August 2026 at 11:19
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Cutting of prisoners’ hair infringes on religious rights – MP Tebandeke
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Bbaale County Member of Parliament, Hon. Charles Tebandeke has questioned the cutting of hair of prisoners asking whether the practice does not infringe on the religious freedoms and constitutional rights of inmates of some faiths. Tebandeke raised the matter on Thursday, 27 August 2026 at a sitting chaired by Speaker Jacob Marksons Oboth. Tebandeke said […] The post Cutting of prisoners’ hair infringes on religious

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