Rebel leader jailed for treason

Ugandan rebel leader Jamil Mukulu has been sentenced to 14 months' imprisonment in Kampala after being convicted of treason. As previously reported in Legalbrief Today, Mukulu was arrested in Tanzania last year. He is allegedly the head of the Muslim rebel group, Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which has operated in the eastern DRC and Uganda since the 1990s. The Ugandan Government has accused it of killing four Muslim clerics in 2014. The Daily Monitor reports that Chief Magistrate John Kagwa agreed to send Mukulu to the Luzira Prison after he claimed he was tortured at the Nalufenya Detention Centre. ‘Nalufenya is not a prison. It is a slaughter house and a pig sty. I am forced to eat pork. I am also detained with rapists and defilers,’ he shouted.