Ugandan activist convicted of harassing president | General news

Stella Nyanzi, a Ugandan academic and activist, has been found guilty of online harbadment of President Yoweri Museveni. She faced two charges of cyber-harbadment and offensive communication but was not found guilty of the latter. Nyanzi responded with a pbadionate speech, accompanied by encouragement from his supporters and other activists.

She said that she would not use her children as a reason not to be sent to jail.

She added that her children do not deserve a mother who sits silently in the face of oppression and is willing to sacrifice her motherhood, to stand up to a dictator. Nyanzi stated that she would have liked to be convicted of offensive communication because she was intent on offending the president. The conviction relates to an article that she posted on Facebook in September 2018, in which she made several references to the deceased mother's private parts and declared that she wished to have died at birth.

The magistrate described the publication on Facebook as going against morality because it was indecent, disgusting, obscene and obscene. Nyanzi refused to apply for bail and spent the last eight months in prison.

She must still be sentenced.

She has already been arrested and sent to prison for another publication on Facebook in which she described the president as "pair of bad". She is still on trial for these charges.

Nyanzi is a social scientist and accomplished academic. Prior to her problems, she was a lecturer at the country's oldest public university, Makerere.