By AFPMore by this AuthorKAMPALAA Ugandan court this week jailed four members of a Muslim sect for life on terrorism charges, a judgment denounced by some as the latest in a series of anti-Muslim rulings. On Tuesday Kampala's High Court sentenced Sheikh Yunus Kamoga and three members of his Tabliq sect to life in prison, while two others were given 30 years each. In each case the victims were shot dead by motorbike-riding assassins, and in each case Muslim suspects were rounded up. MUSLIMS TARGETEDMuslims were being targeted, he said, because "it is easier to believe" thanks to widespread fears of Islamic terrorism, in Uganda and elsewhere. A spokesman for the Tabliq sect, Siraje Nsambu, said the terrorism and murder charges against Kamoga and the others were trumped up.

Source: Daily Nation August 25, 2017 08:15 UTC