Maid’s 4-year jail term unfair, activists claim

>Three days after court handed a four-year jail sentence to housemaid Jolly Tumuhiirwe for assaulting a baby, the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has come out to brand the whole prosecution process a ‘miscarriage of justice’.

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9 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Dec

Chinese get 20-year jail term for smuggling 11 rhino horns

The four convicts were also ordered to pay Sh10.8bn fine. Their case was heard for 23 days

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Jul

Murder suspects face 2-year-jail term for attempt to escape from courtroom

Two murder suspects were injured after their attempt to run away from a Resident Magistrate’s court in Mara Region failed.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Egypt activists' jail terms upheld

A judge in Cairo has upheld jail terms imposed on three activists who were prominent in the 2011 uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Mar

Dar deports aliens after jail term

>The government has deported 43 Ethiopian nationals who were serving  a two-year jail term  for illegal entry and stay in Tanzania.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Ex-mayor's genocide jail term raised

A Rwandan ex-mayor found guilty of genocide by a UN-back war crimes tribunal in 2011 has his sentence extended from 15 to 25 years on appeal.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Rwanda politician's jail term raised

Rwanda's Supreme Court upholds the conviction of opposition leader Victoire Ingabire and increases her jail term from eight to 15 years.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

02 Oct

Mramba and Yona jail term reduced to two years

The High Court on Friday reduced a three year sentence facing former cabinet ministers, Basil Mramba (76) and Daniel Yona (75) to two years.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

26 Dec

Newala man loses appeal against jail term for rape

Newala man loses appeal against jail term for rape
Daily News
A NEWALA resident, Mohamed Athumani, will have to remain behind bars to complete h 30-year impronment for rape after the Court of Appeal dmsed h petition against the verdict. “There no merit in the appeal. We dms it,” Justices January Msoffe, Steven ...

 

5 years ago

BBC

05 Jun

Doctor handed suspended jail term for Patrick Ekeng death

The emergency doctor who was pitchside when Cameroonian Patrick Ekeng died in Romania in 2016 has been handed an 18-month suspended jail sentence for negligence.

 

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