In what appeared like a new trick, Ugandan youths staged a mannequin protest in the capital Kampala calling for the freeing of opposition politician Dr Kizza Besigye, his aide Hajj Obeid Lutale Kamulegeya and other political prisoners.
Perhaps as a way of evading arrest by mean state security officers who often brutally rough up and bundle protesters into vehicles, the youth protesters planted mannequins plastered with placards calling for the release of Besigye, Lutale and other political prisoners.
On the placards were some of the names of political prisoners held by the state. One of the placards on a mannequin read ‘Museveni Bring Back My Daddy.’
The April 16 morning mannequin protest staged along Buganda Road also had a megaphone, alongside the mannequins, which kept playing the words “free all political prisoners.”
The people who were passing by stopped by to look at the words on the placards. Others took photos and walked away.
The Kampala mannequin protest came a day after the Uganda Law Society (ULS) criticized a decision by Justice Rosette Comfort Kania, an acting judge of the High Court’s Criminal Division, who denied Besigye and Lutale bail after they had spent 147 days on remand.
Besigye and his aide Lutale were ‘kidnapped’ from the Kenyan capital Nairobi last year where they had gone to attend a book launch by politician Martha Karua, who would later become their lead lawyer in a case first heard before a military court.
The Museveni state claims that Besigye was plotting to overthrow Museveni. The president’s son even, once, threatened to hang Besigye. (See Details Here and There).
You can read more about the profile of Justice Rosette Comfort Kania, the acting judge who denied Besigye bail, and the criticism by Uganda Law Society telling the judge that she ‘broke the law’ HERE.
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