On February 23, Ugandans cast their ballots in presidential and parliamentary elections, in the country’s first multiparty contest in 26 years. A Human Rights Watch report of February 14, In Hope and Fear: Uganda’s Presidential and Parliamentary Polls, documents human rights violations during the campaign, primarily by the government and President Yoweri Museveni’s ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), which undermined a free and fair vote. Human Rights Watch took these photographs in Uganda’s capitol, Kampala, on election day.

The following photographs were taken by Human Rights Watch on February 23rd, 2006.