Jailed lawyer Male Mabirizi has today failed to continue with the offensive communication case against him before Buganda Road Magistrates Court citing hunger and persecution in prison. This case was instituted against him by lawyer Robert Rutaro Muhairwe as a private prosecutor. The case was instituted a few days after the High Court Civil Division…
The Uganda Prisons Services has said that it has so far vaccinated only 18 percent of its 66,832 inmates across the country. Frank Baine, the Uganda Prisons Spokesperson said that only 2% of the already vaccinated prisoners have received the second dose. Baine explained that their target is to vaccinate at least 50 percent of…
Uganda Prisons Services have confirmed that Six more prisoners who escaped from Moroto government prison have been re-arrested by Uganda People’s Defence Forces in the ongoing disarmament exercise in the Karamoja sub-region. In September 2020, at least 224 prisoners escaped when they overpowered the prison officers and varnished with 14 guns. This prompted to an…
President General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has promoted a total of 148 of Uganda prison service from various ranks. According to communication from the commissioner general of prisons Dr. Johnson Byabashaija, Baine and four others including; Hillary Bisanga, Gervase Tumuhimbise, Tadeo Kaliisa, Raphael Olinga have been promoted to the rank of commissioner of prisons. In other…
