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Carmel Rickard
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Writer and Editor, Freelance
Cape Town
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I write about law human rights and the courts in Africa justice
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By Carmel Rickard Verified| wp.me@ Tensions continue to build in Uganda, where the government and the army are still ignoring the supreme court judgment of more than two weeks ago. This landmark decision nullifies trials of civilians in military courts, ordering that all civilians still on trial before courts martial be immediately transferred to the ordinary courts.
By Carmel Rickard Verified| wp.me@ A constitutional crisis looms in Uganda where President Yoweri Museveni has slammed last week’s watershed judgment by the country’s highest court. The judges found that courts martial had no jurisdiction over civilians and that all such trials had to stop immediately. Evidence of the extent and determination of the military’s refusal to obey the supreme court orders will emerge this week when the general court martial trying a significant political opponent of Museveni is due to reconvene.
By Carmel Rickard Verified| wp.me@ In an extraordinary judgment, the highest court in Eswatini has come out strongly supporting human rights and against the kingdom’s police chief. The stance taken by the supreme court in this decision is almost unheard of in that country, particularly in the way that it outlines constitutional principles that must rule in democratic states.
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