By Ben Musanje
24th Feb 2022
Court of Appeal has directed the officer in-charge of Kitalya Prison to produce the city controversial lawyer Hassan Male Mabirizi before court by tomorrow Friday.
In a production warrant seen by Radio Sapientia signed by the Court of Appeal Registrar Susan Kanyange, the in charge of Kitalya prison has been directed to produce Mabiriizi tomorrow at 11:30am for the ruling.
This morning, the Human rights lawyer Isaac Ssemakadde asked the Court of Appeal to temporarily release Male Mabirizi from prison pending the determination of his appeal challenging the 18-month sentence handed to him for contempt of court.
He made the request when Mabirizi’s application for stay execution of the orders issued by Civil Division High Court Judge, Musa Ssekaana came up for hearing before Justice Christopher Izama Madrama on Tuesday.
Mabirizi ran to the appellant court when Justice Ssekaana found him guilty of contempt of court on February 15th, 2022 and sentenced him to 18 months in civil prison.
The court had earlier on January 27th, 2022 issued orders stopping Mabirizi from using his social pages to attack judicial officers
Dissatisfied with the judgement, Mabirizi appealed the decision on grounds that he was never given a fair hearing.
He also argued that there is no way Justice Ssekaana could have presided over the Attorney General’s application since he was among the judicial officers allegedly aggrieved by his social media posts.
He also filed another application for a stay of execution pending the determination of his appeal challenging the legality of the sentence given to him.
Ssemakadde told the appellant court that it was wrong for the government to arrest his client when his cases are still pending in the Court of Appeal.
To support his argument, Ssemakadde cited the example of legislators who were thrown out of Parliament over election-related matters but continued to serve because of the pending civil court proceedings.
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