A panel of five Constitutional court judges has dismissed an application by four-time presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye asking court to nullify the offence of unlawful assembly in the Penal Code Act.
The panel comprising Justices Kenneth Kakuru, Cheborion Barishaki, Elizabeth Musoke, Steven Musota and Geoffrey Kiryabwire delivered its verdict yesterday. On July 7, 2011, Besigye through his lawyers from A. F Mpanga petitioned the Constitutional court to scrap the offence of unlawful assembly from the Penal Code Act on grounds that it was unconstitutional.
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