KAMPALA — Kenyan Senior Counsel Martha Karua was detained at Entebbe International Airport on Monday after Ugandan authorities denied her entry into the country, setting off a diplomatic and legal storm just hours before a closely watched court ruling involving Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago and the wider prosecution of opposition figures linked to veteran […]
In a deeply emotional video that has sent shockwaves through Uganda’s political circles, Winnie Byanyima, a respected diplomat and the Executive Director of UNAIDS, has broken her silence. She is pleading with President Yoweri Museveni to immediately release her husband, opposition leader Kizza Besigye, from Luzira Maximum Security Prison. Besigye, 68, has been held without […]
Mudavadi explained that Kenya’s decision to work with Ugandan authorities was based on national interest and the need to maintain strong ties with its neighbors.
“ It was a normal relationship with President Museveni. It had some challenges, and I left it, but it is not relevant to the political discussion.”
Museveni asserted that the opposition leader has access to government medical facilities in prison and has also been attended to by his personal doctors at private clinics
Uganda’s government has offered to drop the military trial of opposition leaderKizza Besigye, who has been on a hunger strike since February 10 in protest of his detention. The 68-year-old Besigye, a former ally of President Yoweri Museveni, is facing treason charges for allegedly threatening “national security.” Despite the Supreme Court ruling that civilians should […]
Detained Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye has begun a hunger strike as his time spent in detention awaiting trial nears three months. Besigye, 68, was charged in a military court with possession of pistols and attempting to purchase weapons abroad – accusations which he denies. On Tuesday, an aide from Besigye’s political movement, the People’s […]
Human rights activists and opposition politicians have long accused Museveni’s government of using military courts to prosecute opposition leaders and supporters on politically motivated charges.
During a court hearing on Monday, a military prosecutor read Besigye and his co-accused the new charge of treachery.
The abduction also comes barely a month after Uganda’s opposition leader Kizza Besigye was abducted by armed men in Nairobi only to end up in an Ugandan military prison.
Museveni said any crime involving a gun was dealt with in a military court to ensure the country’s stability as civilian courts took too long to deal with cases.
The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) has expressed its intention to potentially halt the admission of Ugandan lawyers into Kenyan practice following the Uganda Law Council’s refusal to grant a temporary practising licence to Senior Counsel Martha Karua. Karua sought this permission to defend opposition figures Kizza Bisigye and Obeid Lutale in Kampala’s general court […]
While Kenya insists it played no role and is investigating the incident, Uganda holds that Kenya was fully aware of the plan, citing intelligence correspondence aimed at tracking Besigye down.
