Uganda: Stella Nyanzi, Critic of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, Released From Jail

20 February 2020

Uganda's High Court overturned Stella Nyanzi's convictions on the grounds of lack of jurisdiction and fair hearing. Nyanzi had been sentenced to 18 months in jail for "insulting" President Museveni.

Dr. Stella Nyanzi was charged with cyber harassment and offensive communication in 2018 under Uganda's Computer Misuse Act. The rights activist had published a poem on Facebook, in which she insinuated a wish that "the vaginal canal of the acidic pus flooding Esiteri had burned up (the president's) unborn fetus." Esiteri Kokundeka is the name of President Yoweri Miseveni's mother.

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