Kyagulanyi officially applies to supreme court to withdraw presidential election petition Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The former National Unity Platform-NUP Party presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has formally applied to the Supreme Court asking to withdrawal his presidential election petition. His lawyers, led by Medard Lubega Sseggona filed the application …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Human Rights lawyer, Steven Kalali has petitioned the High Court seeking justice on behalf of the journalists who were battered recently by military police officers. The attorney general is the only respondent to the suit filed before the High Court Civil Division. In his …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Human Rights Commission wants the security agencies responsible for the officers who beat up journalists at the UN Human Rights Commission office last week to compensate them for the inhumane and degrading treatment they subjected them to. The UHRC condemned the actions of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Counsel for President Yoweri Museveni, the Attorney General and Electoral Commission have this morning found the Supreme Court registry closed. Last week, the Supreme Court issued strict timelines for hearing the presidential election petition by the National Unity Platform-NUP President, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. The petition …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several journalism bodies have condemned continued brutal attacks by military on journalists as they do their work. On Wednesday, as the former National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu presented a petition on gross human rights violations to the office of the United Nations …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP president, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has applied to the Supreme Court to give him one more day to file additional affidavits supporting his presidential election petition. Kyagulanyi, the first runner-up in the January 14th, 2021 general elections ran to the Supreme Court …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform -NUP’s former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has filed 53 affidavits as evidence supporting his petition challenging the declaration of President Yoweri Museveni as winner of the January 14th polls. The affidavits include one by former Presidential candidate Joseph Kabuleta, Jinja …
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Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Masaka have arrested two people for allegedly circulating leaflets with messages that are demeaning the person of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. The pink-coloured leaflets with Museveni’s cross-stroked-picture started circulating last week in Masaka City and nearby communities. They are inscribed with messages branding …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former National Unity Platform-NUP Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu on Thursday held a meeting with the European Union (EU) delegation. The team was led by the EU head of Delegation in Uganda Attilio Pacifici along with ambassadors representing nine european countries in Uganda. The NUP …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Majority of the grounds, upon which Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the President of the National Unity Platform is seeking to overturn last month’s election results are a replica of a similar petition filed by Former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, five years ago. The petition challenging the …
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