The Court heard that the five women on February 17th 2025 participated in an unauthorized procession on Ben Kiwanuka Street in Kampala, in a manner that would cause danger or inconvenience to traffic.
Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Patrick Onyango stated that Sheikh Lunanoba and others were arrested at Kawempe Mosque after a dispute between two rival Muslim factions of Juma-Zukuli escalated into a physical altercation.
She says the continued detention of Dr. Besigye raises serious questions about Uganda’s commitment to upholding the rule of law, key tenets of shared Commonwealth Charter and values.
In a statement released by the Presidential Press Unit, Museveni described Dr. Besigye’s hunger strike at Luzira Prison, where he has been held for the past three months, as an attempt to blackmail the court into granting him bail.
Speaking during liturgical celebrations at Kigungu-Entebbe to mark 146 years since the arrival of the first Catholic missionaries to Uganda, Bishops Serverus Jjumba of Masaka and Paul Ssemogerere, Archbishop of Kampala, expressed concern about Besigye's continued incarceration despite the Supreme Court ruling that his trial by the General Court Martial was unconstitutional.
