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.
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.
The opposition believes that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni continues to use military courts only to suppress his political opponents. But he is not using the Courts Martial in line with the purposes for which they were created which is to deal with service and discipline offenses committed by the soldiers.
The Parliament urges the Executive to abide by the rule of law, while some legislator said the judiciary let down their colleague by denying him bail that he needed to get treatment abroad.
