Dr. Stella Nyanzi, a medical anthropologist who had been sentenced to 18 months in prison for “insulting” Uganda’s President Museveni, has been released. A former Makerere University lecturer, Dr. Nyanzi was convicted in 2018 for violating Uganda’s Computer Misuse Act - posting offensive language directed at the President on-line. This conviction, a clear violation of her right to free expression, ... Continue Reading>>
Ugandan Academic/Writer/Feminist Receives Award While Imprisoned
Dr. Stella Nyanzi, Ugandan academic, writer and feminist activist was awarded the Oxfam Novib/PEN International award for Freedom of Expression. Dr. Nyanzi remains in Luzira Women's Prison in Kampala, where she has been for the past 15 months for criticizing the President and his mother through her poetry. At the award ceremony, held in the Hague, an empty chair was used to symbolize her ... Continue Reading>>
Social Science Researcher and Anthropologist, Dr. Stella Nyanzi, at Makerere University in Uganda, Was Arrested and Charged for Criticizing the President and His Wife on Facebook
Dr. Stella Nyanzi, a Professor at Makerere University in Uganda, was arrested and charged under the Computer Misuse Act of 2011 for insulting the President on Facebook. Dr. Nyanzi was advocating that schools supply sanitary pads to girls so that they may attend school during their menstrual cycle. Many girls were not showing up in school to avoid embarrassment. The President was not a ... Continue Reading>>