Ugandan activist and scholar Dr. Stella Nyanzi has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for insulting president Yoweri Museveni.
Nyanzi found herself in trouble when she referred Uganda’s dictator Museveni as a pair of buttocks on a Facebook post on January 27th 2017.
On April 7th 2017, Dr. Nyanzi was arrested and taken to Luzira Maximum Security Prison in connection with her Facebook post. She was set free but then again she was arrested in November 2018 and taken back to remand prison.
Dr. Nyanzi has been in remand for nine months. Buganda Road Chief Magistrate Court found her guilty of cyber harassment on Thursday August 1st and sentenced her on Friday August 2nd 2019.
Magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu sentenced the controversial activist to 18 months in prison. She said that Nyanzi’s post should never have been put in the public domain, describing it as obscene and indecent, further stating that the post could only be made by an immoral person.
Dr. Nyanzi attended the Friday sentencing via video link against her will. She only appeared in court on a television screen from Luzira Prison where she is being held.
The controversial activist exposed her breasts in protest for not being permitted to physically attend the final judgement.
Nyanzi shouted “f**k you, f**k you” to the magistrate and put both her middle fingers up, before going on to flash her breasts.
