A 21 year tiktoker by name Emmanuel Nabugodi a Ugandan National has been convicted for calling for the public flogging of President Yoweri Museveni on TikTok.
The Tiktoker created a video depicting a mockery of the Ugandan President faces up to 7 years in prison for “spreading hate speech” against 80 year old Yoweri Museveni.
On November 13, He pleaded guilty and was remanded in custody at the notorious Kigo maximum security prison near Kampala until November 18, when he will be sentenced.
The State attorney of Uganda Paul Aheebwa Byamukama said prosecutors have asked the Entebbe court to impose a seven-year sentence.
It is reported that, Nabugodi is the fourth Ugandan to appear in court and be remanded in custody in the last two days for insulting the president and his family.
Another 21-year-old TikToker was sentenced to six years in prison in July for insulting Museveni. Museveni has ruled Uganda with an iron fist since he toppled president Milton Obote in 1986.
Award-winning author Kakwenza Rukirabashaija was arrested in late 2021 and charged with insulting Museveni and his powerful son Muhoozi Kainerugaba who likely to take leadership from his 80 year-old father.
Rukirabashaija was awarded the 2021 PEN Pinter Prize for an International Writer of Courage, which is presented annually to a writer who has been persecuted for speaking out about their beliefs.
He said he was tortured during his month-long detention in Uganda and fled into exile in Germany.
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