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Leading Thursday's international brief, Uganda's chief prosecutor Simon Byabakama Mugenyi told the High Court where opposition leader Kizza Besigye is being tried on treason charges that files detailing the intelligence gathering efforts against Besigye...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Iran could be the target of a new UN Security Council resolution mandating compliance with an International Atomic Energy Agency order that Iran cease production of enriched uranium . US,...

Ruling on petition by Kizza Besigye challenging the presidential election of 23 February 2006 in which President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was declared elected, Uganda Supreme Court, April 6, 2006.Text:The Petitioner, Rtd. Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye, who was one of the...

The Ugandan Supreme Court has ruled by a vote of 4-3 against a challenge to the February 23 presidential elections which allowed President Yoweri Museveni to remain in power. The challenge and request...

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye and 22 others pleaded not guilty to treason charges Tuesday at the opening of their trial in Kampala. The charges allege that the men plotted to forcefully overthrow the...

Kizza Besigye , the recently defeated presidential candidate in Uganda , has asked the Ugandan Supreme Court to order a new presidential election, saying results from the February 23 election [JURIST...

Sixteen Ugandan men who were arrested and charged with treason along with defeated presidential candidate Kizza Besigye , claim that they were tortured by state security agents while in custody and are suing the Ugandan...

Police in Uganda JURIST news archive] have summoned opposition leader Kizza Besigye to question him about alleged electoral law violations during last month's elections . Besigye purportedly waved the lid of the ballot box at the...

Leading Thursday's international brief, a Ugandan high court judge has refused to grant a defense motion that would have dismissed charges of treason and concealment of treason against Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye . Besigye's lawyers...

The government of Uganda has been intimidating members of the media since before the February 23 presidential elections , including filing criminal charges against some journalists for their work, according to a...