The Chairman of the Foundation of the Human Rights Initiative Livingstone Sewanyana has expressed delight over the recent decision of the constitutional in which it declared the law on sedition unconstitutional.

Livingstone Sewanyana

The declaration of the law on sedition as unconstitutional has come as big relief to journalists who have been the principal victims of the law as it was said to be used by the government to harass journalists and infringe on their rights.

Sewanyana has told journalists at Hotel Africana that as human rights activist he thinks this is a victory of for the people that fight for human rights and he is extremely delighted by the courts decision.

Journalists have been battling in court over the years with government over the law on sedition. The law provided for under the penal code people’s of the freedoms of expressions and speech by unnecessarily restricting that freedom.

The law had been made during the colonial days in bid to curtail on the freedom of Ugandan’s to speak out against the colonial government and there has always been a feeling among  that the law had out lived its importance in this democratic society.

By Zakaria Tiberindwa, Ultimate Media