Quotes

‘The court cannot permit its orders to be rendered hollow.’ 

Patricia Nyaundi Mande, holding Kenyan Health Minister Aden Duale in contempt for proceeding with the construction of the US Ebola facility despite a court order that it be halted 

 

‘In Uganda, I Do Not believe in a free press!’ 

Uganda's military leader, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, announcing on social media that several media outlets would cease operations immediately 

 

‘It is difficult to understand why one member of a defence team should be admitted while another is turned away.’ 

Kenya's Law Society president Charles Kanjama in a post on X, calling on Ugandan authorities to explain their actions after leading Kenyan lawyer and former Justice Minister Martha Karua, who was attempting to join a team defending her Ugandan lawyer colleague Erias Lukwago, was blocked from entering Uganda 

 

‘It has to do with a totalitarian regime that wants to erase the legacy of the IVD (Truth and Dignity Commission).' 

Tunisian rights activist Sihem Bensedrine who was sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges including falsifying part of a transitional justice commission's final report