[ad_1]
A prominent Ugandan activist jailed last year for insulting President Yoweri Museveni was found guilty of cyber-harbadment of the head of state on Thursday, for which she could be sentenced to an additional three years in prison. said his lawyer.
Ugandan university researcher and Museveni's acerbic critic, Stella Nyanzi, has been "convicted of cyber-harbadment," said Isaac Semakadde's attorney at AFP.
However, a second charge of "offensive communication" was dropped, he added.
Nyanzi – who was initially arrested and tried in July 2017 for calling Museveni a "pair of bad" – was arrested again in November 2018 and has since spent nine months in jail for what prosecutors described as "an attack brutal against the person of the president and his deceased mother ".
In response to his new sentence Thursday, Semakadde said Nyanzi was not "agreeing with the decision, but we are waiting for the sentence to be handed down" on Friday.
"Without being challenged, this decision means that she will be sentenced to an additional three years in prison, in addition to nine months in prison," Semakadde said.
Nevertheless, Nyanzi was "ready to face the consequences because she feels committed to a just cause," added the lawyer.
According to a local journalist present at the trial, Nyanzi said he was "very disappointed with the offensive communication verdict against Yoweri Museveni", in power since 1986.
"I had the intention of boring Yoweri Museveni, we are tired of his dictatorship," she said.
She also hit the president's wife, Janet Museveni, Minister of National Education, accusing her of abandoning the election promise to distribute free sanitary napkins in schools.
Associate researcher at the prestigious Makerere University of Kampala, Nyanzi holds a doctorate on baduality in Africa.
In 2017, she told AFP that "the so-called vulgar words are sometimes the best way to get your message across."
Nigerian public opinion is divided on its comments on Facebook, where it has more than 200,000 subscribers.
Source link
