Uganda condemns 16 opposition members for 'treachery'

Kampala, Uganda — 

A Ugandan subject tribunal Monday convicted 16 members of an absorption enactment of "illegal possession of explosive devices and treachery," according to a defence lawyer, who said the proceedings were suspect.

The prosecution alleged that the 16 members of the National Unity Platform, arsenic good arsenic others inactive connected the run, were recovered successful possession of explosives betwixt November 2020 and May 2021, portion elections were nether way.

"Circumstances surrounding their plea of blameworthy to the charges they had denied antecedently was questionable," Shamim Malende, a defence lawyer, told AFP.

Former vocalist and absorption fig Bobi Wine, whose existent sanction is Robert Kyagulanyi, claimed the radical had been forced to plead blameworthy and question a statesmanlike pardon.

Journalists were barred from attending the session.

The 16 person spent 4 years successful jail, and volition look successful tribunal Wednesday for their sentencing.

Uganda has been ruled since 1986 by Yoweri Museveni.

The past statesmanlike elections successful 2021 were marred by fraud, and demonstrations against yet different apprehension of Bobi Wine were violently repressed by the police, resulting successful astatine slightest 54 dead.

"Whatever Museveni's authorities is doing, 1 time each those nether him including himself volition beryllium called to account," Bobi Wine told AFP, saying the accused had been "blackmailed by authorities agents."