{"id":51951,"date":"2024-11-19T13:04:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/21-year-old-ugandan-man-jailed-for-insulting-president-museveni-in-tiktok-video\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T13:03:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:03:59","slug":"21-year-old-ugandan-man-jailed-for-insulting-president-museveni-in-tiktok-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/21-year-old-ugandan-man-jailed-for-insulting-president-museveni-in-tiktok-video\/","title":{"rendered":"21-year-old Ugandan man jailed for insulting President Museveni in TikTok video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emmanuel Nabugodi, a comedian, was sentenced on Monday, November 18, 2024, days after pleading guilty to four charges, including hate speech and spreading malicious information about the president.<\/p>\n

He ran into trouble with the authorities after posting a video featuring a mock trial of the Ugandan Head of State. In the video, which he shared with more than 20,000 followers on his account, he called for Museveni\u2019s public flogging.<\/p>\n

Chief Magistrate Stellah Maris Amabilis, while passing the sentence, said the accused showed no remorse and that the sentence would serve as a deterrent to social media attacks against individuals, including the president.<\/p>\n

“This court hopes that by the time the convict leaves prison, he will have learned that abusing people in the name of content creation is wrong,” she said.<\/p>\n

Nabugodi has 14 days to lodge an appeal against the sentence.<\/p>\n

The young man is among several individuals charged under a 2022 amendment to the Computer Misuse Act, which has faced opposition from some rights groups. Three others are awaiting trial over content shared on the social media app.<\/p>\n

The amendment made it illegal to “write, send, or share any information through a computer that is likely to ridicule, degrade, or demean another person, group of persons, a tribe, an ethnicity, a religion, or gender.”<\/p>\n

In July, a 24-year-old man was sentenced to six years in prison for insulting the First Family through a TikTok video. <\/p>\n

Edward Awebwa was charged with hate speech and spreading “misleading and malicious” information against Museveni, First Lady Janet, and General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who is the head of the Ugandan army. <\/p>\n

Although Awebwa pleaded guilty and asked for forgiveness, the presiding magistrate noted that he did not appear remorseful and that the language used in the video was “extremely vulgar.”<\/p>\n

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