Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | She was barely 17 years old when she went to work to pay a school fees debt after sitting her O level exams. Instead, when she asked for her pay after one month, she was arrested and charged with defiling a 4 year old boy in …
Read More »MP Odonga Otto remanded to prison
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Aruu North County Member of Parliament Samuel Odonga Otto has been remanded to prison. Otto was charged with two counts of malicious damage to property, assault, and occasioning bodily harm. He appeared for mention of the case before the Grade One Magistrate’s Court presided over …
Read More »Uganda Law Society mourns loss of lawyer Bob Kasango
📌 FUNERAL PROGRAM ✳ SUNDAY – Vigil Butabika 7-8pm ✳ MONDAY – Service & Vigil 7-8pm ✳ TUESDAY – Church Service 10am All Saints ✳ TUESDAY – Vigil Fort Portal 5pm ✳ WEDNEDAY – Prayers at home ✳ THURDAY – Burial Fort Portal 12pm Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The …
Read More »LCI chairperson in Gulu, seven others jailed for arson
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Elia Oreste, the local council chairperson for Obiya West village in Bardege division in Gulu city has been sentenced to five years in prison for arson and malicious damage. Oreste was sentenced alongside Lucy Akello, Ruth Adong, Nancy Lanyero Abic, Jackson Orach, Alfred Nyeko, Jackson …
Read More »Kitgum prison turned into Covid-19 quarantine center for inmates
Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Prisons Services have started evacuating inmates from Kitgum Government prisons to turn the facility into a temporary quarantine centre. Prison authorities began moving close to 300 inmates to the neighbouring Orom prison in Orom Sub County, Kitgum District and Lututuru prison in Agoro …
Read More »Three dead, security pursues 20 others after Arua prison-break
Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three inmates have been shot dead after attempting to escape from Arua government Prison. It is alleged that the three, whose identities are yet to be established and 20 others on Saturday at 12 pm broke the perimeter wall of the western side of …
Read More »Turkish court frees two journalists after three years in prison
Istanbul, Turkey | AFP | A Turkish court on Monday ordered the release under supervision of two prominent journalists jailed over alleged links to the failed 2016 coup in the country. Ahmet Altan and Nazli Ilicak walked out of prison on Monday evening where they had been serving a sentence of …
Read More »High-profile cases turn spotlight on domestic violence in Russia
Moscow, Russia | AFP | Natalia Tunikova’s partner pushed her towards the open balcony in their high-rise Moscow flat, before punching her to the floor. Fearing she would die, she reached for their kitchen table and “grabbed the nearest object”. It was a knife. Tunikova, 47, said she was subjected to …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Stella Nyanzi’s new mission in Luzira prison
THIS WEEK: Stella Nyanzi’s new mission in Luzira prison Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University researcher and activist Stella Nyanzi declined bail by the Magistrates Court to teach inmates at Luzira prison how to use social media. Nyanzi was charged with cyber harassment and offensive communication after she wrote …
Read More »Israel freeing 207 African migrants from prison
Jerusalem, Undefined | AFP | Israel on Sunday began freeing 207 African migrants from prison following a supreme court ruling after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu controversially reversed a deal with the UN refugee agency on the detainees’ fate. By early evening, a spokeswoman for the immigration authority told AFP, about …
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