The Executive Director of The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and wife of jailed opposition politician Dr Kizza Besigye, Dr Winnie Byanyima, has revealed that he is conscious but remains very weak and unable to speak following his collapse at the High Court at the beginning of his treason trial. While addressing journalists […]
The Criminal Division of High court in Kampala presided over by Justice David Matovu, has dismissed the bail application of former Kampala Lord Mayor and President of the People’s Front for Freedom (PFF), Erias Lukwago over lack of a certified medical report from the Uganda Prisons Service (UPS). Justice Matovu in a ruling delivered online […]
There was a moment of tension at the High Court during the opening of the treason trial, against veteran opposition politician Dr Kizza Besigye and his aide Hajji Obeid Lutale, when Besigye collapsed inside the courtroom while protesting a decision by the court to compel him to be represented by state-appointed lawyers. The incident occurred […]
The Criminal Division of the High Court, presided over by Justice David Matovu, has deferred the ruling on convicted former Kampala Lord Mayor and President of the People’s Front for Freedom (PFF), Erias Lukwago until next week. There was drama after a number of supporters, politicians and family members, waited patiently for him to appear […]
The presiding judge in the hearing of the treason case against veteran opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye, and his co accused Hajji Obeid Lutale, Justice Emmanuel Baguma has ordered to the director of the Judiciary’s criminal division, to provide state lawyers for the duo to enable commencement of their trial. On Monday, following their arraignment […]
Veteran opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye, and his co accused Hajji Obeid Lutale have raised concern on receiving a fair trial after his defense team being targeted. Besigye voiced the concerns before the High Court on Tuesday, shortly after Justice Emmanuel Baguma declined to temporarily stay proceedings in his human rights application against Chief of […]
The Chief Coordinator of Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) and Senior Presidential Advisor on Defence, Gen. (Rtd) Caleb Akandwanaho, commonly known as Gen. Salim Saleh, has urged the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba to brief the Justice Minister Nobert Mao, on the recent arrest of former Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, who is facing […]
The former Kampala Lord Mayor and president of People’s Front for Freedom (PFF) party, Erias Lukwago has been picked up by security operatives attached to the Special Forces Command (SFC), from his home in Wakaliga, a Kampala suburb. According to videos circulating on social media, heavily armed operatives in military camouflage are seen taking strategic […]
The trial judge in the treason case against Dr. Kizza Besigye and his co-accused Hajji Obeid Lutale, Justice Emmanuel Baguma, has adjourned the commencement of their treason trial to June 30th after both accused failing to appear before the High Court on Thursday. On Thursday, Prisons authorities only presented their co-accused Captain Denish Oola Ooya, […]
Imprisoned veteran politician Col Dr. Kizza Besigye, has sued the Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, over alleged prejudicial public statements he made last year, following his arrest in Kenya over an alleged plot to overthrow his father, President Yoweri Museveni. Dr. Kizza Besigye and his co-accused Hajji Obeid Lutale, who are facing treason […]
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