The legal battles of MAK’s outspoken researcher are not about to end as her bail application has been resent to the lower magistrate’s court.
While appearing before judge Elizabeth Kabanda this afternoon, the mental Examination request by his Lordship James Muwanga of Buganda road court has also been cancelled. Despite Dr. Nyanzi’s admittance of being in a sober state of mind when she called President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni a pair of buttocks, the state had insisted on having the Luzira Mental facility examine her state of mind.
She is being charged under Section 2(a) and 24(1) of the computer misuse act 2011 and has been remanded at Luzira prison since May 10th 2017.
Today’s hearing was expected to determine the fate of the bail application by her legal team led by Counsel Isaac Semakadde. The judge has on the contrary redrawn the case to the lower chief magistrates court.
Below is an Excerpt of the Computer Misuse Act
24. Cyber harassment.
(1) A person who commits cyber harassment is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding seventy two currency points or imprisonment not exceeding three years or both.
(2) For purposes of this section cyber harassment is the use of a computer for any of the following purposes—
(a) making any request, suggestion or proposal which is obscene, lewd, lascivious or indecent;
(b) threatening to inflict injury or physical harm to the person or property of any person; or
(c) knowingly permits any electronic communications device to be used for any of the purposes mentioned in this section.
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