Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that all charges, or ongoing criminal trials, or pending trials, before the courts martial involving civilians must immediately cease and be transferred to the ordinary courts of law with competent jurisdiction.
Speaking at the 26th Annual Judges Conference in Kampala, the President underscored the importance of patriotism, Pan-Africanism, socio-economic transformation, and democracy in driving Uganda’s development.
The reforms arise from a long awaited judgement in the unsuccessful appeal filed by the Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka seeking to maintain the trial of civilians in the court martial.
Fox Odoi told Parliament that Besigye complained that he was being held in solitary confinement of what he allegedly described as prison with in prison.
This was a unanimous decision delivered on Wednesday by five Supreme Court Justices, led by Professor Lillian Tibatemwa, in the case of Lt. Ambrose Ogwang, a UPDF officer who was found guilty of murder by the Court Martial and subsequently sentenced to 29 years in prison. Ogwang sought to overturn his conviction and subsequent sentence.