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Presidential reprieve for the ‘idle and disorderly’ of Uganda

Posted on October 4, 2019 by Admin

Yoweri Museveni calls for repeal of ‘colonial’ law grounded in ‘fear of Africans’ as he orders immediate release of people arrested for ‘nonsensical crime’

Uganda’s president has ordered a reprieve for street vendors arrested in a recent “idleness” crackdown, saying the law was the result of a colonial “fear” of Africans.

Yoweri Museveni signed a directive to the attorney general and the chief of police for the immediate release of people jailed for being idle and disorderly.

Activist who branded Uganda president ‘a dirty, delinquent dictator’ is jailed

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Admin

Stella Nyanzi vows to persist with criticism of Yoweri Museveni after receiving 18-month prison sentence for cyber harassment

Stella Nyanzi, the Ugandan women’s rights activist and staunch government critic who once called head of state Yoweri Museveni “a pair of buttocks”, has received an 18-month jail sentence after she was found guilty of cyber harassment against the president.

Nyanzi, a former researcher at Makerere University, was arrested on 2 November after posting a poem on Facebook that the state deemed abusive towards Museveni and his late mother.