The University lecturer who is standing trial for ‘insulting’ and criticizing the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni and his wife will remain in detention for a few days after a court refused to grant her bail on Wednesday.
A Ugandan high court also ruled allowing for Stella Nyanzi to undergo compulsory mental examination.
Nyanzi who criticized Museveni and his wife in a post on her Facebook page was arrested and charged with electronic communications offences.
She was unhappy with Mrs Museveni who is also the education minister for failing to fulfill a promise to offer free sanitary pads to schoolgirls.
Eron Kiiza, one of Nyanzi’s lawyers, told Reuters that the judge ordered the magistrate’s court to hear her bail application, and sent her back to prison until May 10.
“The high court did also say the… proceedings for her mental examination should continue and be expedited,” Kiiza said.
Nyanzi’s lawyers had wished the high court will grant her bail and stop the lower magistrate’s court from granting the request from the prosecutors to have her undergo mental examination.
When she was initially charged, state prosecutors asked the court to order a mental examination.
Stella Nyanzi has been denied bail. pic.twitter.com/gJBKtB76VF
— New Vision UGANDA (@newvisionwire) April 26, 2017
Source: Africafeeds.com
