Uganda: Stella Nyanzi Bail Intact, Mental Test Plea Delayed

Buganda Road Court has halted government's request to ascertain the mental status of Senior Makerere University Researcher Dr. Stella Nyanzi. This, court said, will stay pending disposal of her petition challenging the Mental Treatment Act of 1938.

Chief Magistrate James Eremye Mawanda ruled that he could not render Dr. Nyanzi's petition useless, since she was not challenging her cyber harassment  trial, but had to allow the Constitutional Court exercise its jurisdiction and resolve the  question of whether the compulsory subjecting of suspects to the Mental Treatment Act enacted during colonial era, is still relevant.

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