Tag Archives: bail

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Buganda Road Magistrates Court has remanded former presidential candidate, Dr. Kizza Besigye to Luzira prison on charges of inciting violence. Besigye together with former Rubaga South Constituency Parliamentary candidate, Samuel Lubega Mukaku, were remanded by court presided over by Grade One Magistrate Asuman Muhumuza. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Isaac Muwata has set July 5th, 2022 to hear the bail application of jailed city lawyer, Male Mabirizi. He set the date when Mabirizi appeared before the High Court Criminal Division on Tuesday and applied for mandatory bail on grounds that he has spent over …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Legal Aid Service Providers Network-LASPNET has asked the judiciary top leadership to prevail over judicial officers who use their positions to issue harsh bail conditions with intention of failing justice. In their statement, the LASPNET Board of Directors led by Arthur Nsereko from the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Law Development Centre-LDC court has granted bail to Kampala Deputy Lord Mayor Doreen Nyanjura and Soroti District Woman Member of Parliament, Annah Adeke. The two together with former Mbale District Woman MP aspirant Margaret Wokuri Madanda, Susan Nanyonjo, Mariam Kizito, and Alice Among were arrested …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Buganda Road Magistrates Court has charged Dr. Kizza Besigye with inciting violence. Besigye was produced at Buganda Road Court by police on Wednesday amidst tight security and charged before Grade One Magistrate Siena Owomugisha. Court heard that on May 24th, 2022 at Arua Park …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The army prosecutor Lt Col Raphael Mugisha has asked the General Court Martial in Makindye to give him extra time to present more witnesses in the case in which 32 supporters of National Unity Platform are accused of being in unlawful possession of explosive devices. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Satirical novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija says he has succeeded in fundraising 40 million shillings for his sureties whose arrest court had ordered, for failure to produce him in court. On January 25, 2022, the Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court granted Kakwenza a cash bail of 500,000 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The court chaired by Lt General Andrew Gutti on Monday failed to proceed with the bail hearing of petrol bomb suspects after one of the sureties, Busujju County Member of Parliament Lukyamuzi David Kalwanga, failed to name all the accused persons off his head. The …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has issued a warrant of arrest against four people who stood surety for satirical novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, who was facing charges of offensive communication. The sureties include lawyer Julius Galisonga, the Secretary-General of the National Unity Platform David Lewis …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has clarified that city lawyer Julius Galisonga was erroneously summoned to take plea on an offensive communication case against satirical Novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija. According to the correspondences seen by Uganda Radio Network, the Court erroneously summoned Galisonga to …