The hearing of the cyber harassment and computer misuse case against sacked Makerere University researcher Dr Stella Nyanzi has flopped at Buganda road court following the absence of trial magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu who is said to be a way on duty. The case has been adjourned to March 20th 2019 Recently, Nyanzi said she is […]
The hearing of the cyber harassment and computer misuse case against sacked Makerere University researcher Dr Stella Nyanzi has flopped at Buganda road court following the absence of trial magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu who is said to be a way on duty.
The case has been adjourned to March 20th 2019
Recently, Nyanzi said she is willing to stay in detention until the courts dispose off charges of cyber harassment and offensive communication filed against her.
As such, Nyanzi said she will not apply for bail anytime soon and will if the opportunity arises instead asked court to send her back to prison, where she says, she wants to stay throughout the trial in order to avoid disruption of her freedom.
Nyanzi was arrested last year in November in relation to a boorish birthday poem she posted on social media on September 16, 2018, a day after President Yoweri Museveni’s 74th birthday. The poem was crafted in vulgarity targeted at Museveni’s late mother Esteeri Kokundeka.
The prosecution alleges that on September 16, 2018…. Nyanzi used a computer to post statements wishing that Museveni should have died at the time of his birth and that she willfully and repeatedly used electronic communication to post similar messages which disturbed the peace, quiet or right of privacy of President Museveni.
Nyanzi pleaded not guilty to the charges. However, she said that as a poetess, she used the metaphor to portray her criticism against the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) government and that she found it ridiculous that the president would be offended by a poem that made reference to his mother.
Nyanzi rose to fame in 2016 after staging a nude protest at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) following a controversy between her and Prof Mahmood Mamdani, the institute’s director.
