HUMAN RIGHTS FOR EACH PERSON REGARDLESS OF AGE, RACE, RELIGION OR POLITICS
HOME | PRISONERS & PRISONS | EXPERIENCES | BOOKS & PRODUCTS | HOW YOU CAN HELP | LATEST NEWS | EMAIL
LATEST NEWS
Australian lawyers fly to Uganda
From: AAP From correspondents in Uganda June 17, 2006

FIVE Australian observers and one Canadian are on their way to Uganda to witness the trial of Dr Aggrey Kiyingi, which begins on Monday.

Mr Kiyingi, 51, who has dual Australian-Ugandan citizenship, is charged with ordering the murder of prominent Ugandan lawyer and anti-corruption advocate Robinah Kiyingi, also known as Robinah Kiyibgi.

According to an official at the Foreign Ministry, Jane Namusa, at least two lawyers from the Australian Bar Association, two officials from the Australian High Commission in Nairobi, one member of the Australian Medical Association, and one member of the Canadian Medical Association have been given visas to travel to Uganda to attend the proceedings.

The official did not disclose their names.

Proceedings began yesterday in the Uganda High Court against Mr Kiyingi and two co-accused and were immediately adjourned until Monday.

Mr Kiyingi's lead lawyer Dusman Kabega said the delegation had told him it would be in the country before Monday.

"I am not yet sure whether the lawyers will join us to defend the suspect, but at least they have indicated that they are coming to assess the matter and see how they can help," said Mr Kabega.

Mr Kabega, who is to defend Mr Kiyingi jointly with Edward Muguluma and Edy Kikiringoma, said: "We are prepared for the case. This matter was committed to the High Court long ago for trial and we had enough time to prepare the defence for our client."

Mr Kiyingi is accused, with two others, of ordering the killing of his wife, Robinah Kiyingi, 55, who was shot several times in the head at the gate of her home in the Ugandan capital on July 11 last year.

Prosecutors allege that the Ugandan-born doctor ordered the killing by phone from Sydney where he ran a medical practice.

The pair separated several years ago and Robinah returned to Uganda where she became a high-profile anti-corruption and human rights campaigner.

Date set for Kiyingi hearing
From: AAP - From correspondents in Kampala - May 18, 2006

AN Australian cardiologist charged with murdering his wife has had a date set for his trial in Uganda.

The Ugandan High Court today said Dr Aggrey Kiyingi's trial would start on June 16.

Mr Kiyingi is accused, along with two other people, of murdering his wife Robinah Kiyingi, 54, a prominent Ugandan lawyer, at her home in the outskirts of the capital on July 11, 2005.

High Court assistant registrar John Waswa today told journalists the case would be heard by High Court Judge Okuma Wengi.

He said the case was to have been heard in March, but the judge postponed it because there was not enough time in the court session to hear all the witnesses.

The 51-year-old doctor is being held in custody at Luzira prison.

He has twice been refused bail, despite qualifying by having been in custody for more than 165 days without his case going to court.

One of his lawyers said his legal team was more than ready to defend their client.

"For us, we have been always well prepared to start defending our client but the High Court has been delaying the hearing over unclear reasons," the lawyer said.

CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO THE NEWS PAGE
FREEDOM IS A RIGHT OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS IN A WORLD WHERE LIFE IS VALUED AND PEACE MAY FINALLY BE A POSSIBILITY
*
MAKE A DONATION
*
TELL A FRIEND
*
HOME | PRISONERS & PRISONS | EXPERIENCES | BOOKS & PRODUCTS | HOW YOU CAN HELP | LATEST NEWS | EMAIL
Just in case you forgot - read the Universal declaration of Human Rights
Copyright - An important message to website owners:
All information at this site is © Copyright 1996 - 2007 'Save-A-Life' , 'Foreign Prisoner Support Service' & 'ForeignPrisoners.com' unless stated otherwise. As with all our information AND more specifically, information relating to CAMPAIGNS AND/OR PRISONERS we have been granted special permission to disclose this type of information by the families and/or by the detainee themselves. Therefore, if you wish to use any of this information to re-create in your own website or elsewhere, please contact us - save breach of copyright. News stories are reprinted for archival, news reporting and information use only and are credit where possible.
Click here for the legal stuff