The ruling on a bizarre sedition case in which three journalists of the independent Ugandan daily Monitor are charged with publishing a picture that showed Ugandan soldiers sexually harassing a woman will be delivered on August 10. Journalists from a Ugandan newspaper face sedition charges after publishing a photo showing soldiers sexually harassing a woman.
Sedition is the incitement of or resistance to legal authority.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has frequently attacked the Monitor newspaper. The Monitor has constantly been under attack from Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's government, who has twice threatened the publication over its coverage of Ugandan soldiers' activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ruling was fixed after Buganda Road Grade One Magistrate Joshua Maruk heard final submissions from Monitor lawyers James Nangwala and Alex Rezida, who asked the court to throw away the case. Nangwala said the prosecution had failed to prove the charges against his clients and asked the court to acquit them. Exposure of a crime Civil war in Congo.