Academic gives a middle-finger salute

Ugandan academic and activist Stella Nyanzi, who was last week acquitted of insulting President Yoweri Museveni, fainted after being caught in a scuffle between her supporters and police officers. Police fired tear gas at the crowd that gathered outside the Kampala court. 'We were simply jubilating and we knew that this was court ground. The police officers brought in all this chaos,' said supporter Flavia Kalule. BBC News reports that Nyanzi, who presented her middle finger after the judge's verdict, said she had simply 'expressed my deep disinterest and disgust of the (ruling) National Resistance Movement'. As previously reported in Legalbrief Today, she was jailed over a 2018 Facebook post in which she defamed Museveni's mother.

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