After 33 days in detention, Makerere University researcher Dr Stella Nyanzi has been granted bail by Buganda Road Magistrates court. Court granted the frail-looking Nyanzi a Shs 10 million (non-cash) bail and asked her to deposit her passport. Prosecution alleges that Stella Nyanzi used her social media pages to refer to President Yoweri Museveni as "a pair of buttocks." She denied the charges but told court that she always writes 'metaphorically' to deliver messages to 'those in power'. He also asked court Stella to refrain from discussing the case in court.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 10, 2017 11:26 UTC