The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) general court-martial has remanded Rtd. Colonel Dr. Kiiza Besigye and Obeid Lutaale Kamulegeya to Luzira and Kitalya prisons, respectively. Appearing before the Makindye-based military court on Wednesday afternoon, chaired by Brigadier Freeman Mugabe, the duo faced four charges related to security, including conspiring against Uganda’s security and illegal possession […]
Local artist Patrick Mulwana, a.k.a Alien Skin has been charged and remanded to Luzira Prison over robbery contrary to section 266 and 267 (1) (3) of the penal code act CAP 128. It is alleged that Alien Skin (30), a resident of Kizungu Zone in Makindye Division, Kampala district on September 28, 2024 while at […]
The High Court in Kampala has directed the government and eight soldiers to compensate two journalists who were assaulted while covering an event involving National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, who was petitioning the United Nations Human Rights Office four years ago. Each journalist, New Vision, reporters Timothy Murungi and Henry Sekanjako, will […]
Five men who pleaded guilty to the offence of shooting dead a security guard, robbing Banxell Forex Bureau along Kabuusu Road in Lubaga Division and taking the security guard’s gun number SAR-UG PSO 54000868124 with nine rounds of ammunition, have been sentenced to life imprisonment in the general court martial at Makindye. They were charged together with […]
Dozens of lawyers on Friday stormed the High Court in Kampala to follow up on the case in which two of the members of the Uganda Law Society (ULS) are challenging the decision by their President Isaac Ssemakadde to expel Attorney General and the Solicitor General as representatives from the Uganda Law Society Council. Those who […]
Masaka Grade I Magistrate, Aloysius Natwijuka has sentenced a 33-year old woman, Stellah Namwanje of Binyonyi A zone in Nyando-Mukungwe division, in Masaka City to 35 years in jail after she pleaded guilty to the offence of forcing her friend’s 11-month child to eat her (Namwanje’s) faeces and drink her urine. Namwanje was arrested following […]
The Judiciary is seeking a new Deputy Chief Justice in preparation for the coming retirement of Justice Richard Buteera who has been holding the second highest office in the institution since 2020. Buteera is expected to clock the mandatory retirement age of 70 years for Court of Appeal Justices / Constitutional Court in April 2025 and will leave […]
Mercy Timbitwire, a Public Relations Officer at the NRM Secretariat, has been remanded to Luzira Prison after being taken to court following a viral video that showed her slapping a traffic police officer. Timbitwire was arrested on Friday and spent the weekend at Jinja Road Police Station before being produced today in Nakawa Chief Magistrates […]
The Kasangati Chief Magistrates Court has remanded the Former Executive Director of Kampala Capital City Authority Dorothy Kisaka and her Deputy David Luyimbazi on 57 charges including manslaughter, causing death or harm by rush or negligent act. Kisaka, Luyimbazi and the Director of Public Health Dr Daniel Okello on Friday were arraigned before the Court presided over by the Chief Magistrate […]