A 21-year-old has turn into the untouched Ugandan TikToker to be despatched to jail later making a video that used to be mentioned to insult President Yoweri Museveni.

Emmanuel Nabugodi gave the impression for the sentencing on Monday later pleading in charge extreme year to 4 fees, together with abhor pronunciation and spreading bad details about the president.

He used to be sentenced to 32 months in prison.

Nabugodi, identified for sharing comedy content material to his 20,000 fans, made a movie of a ridicule trial of the pinnacle of environment. In it he known as for Museveni’s crowd flogging.

Rights teams have continuously complained about restrictions at the self-rule of pronunciation within the nation, alleging that the president – in energy since 1986 – does now not live through complaint.

In July, Edward Awebwa used to be passed a six-year sentence on related fees to Nabugodi referring to a TikTok submit. 3 others are watching for trial over content material at the social media app.

When handing i’m sick Nabugodi’s sentence, Stellah Maris Amabilis, the prominent Justice of the Peace of the court docket in Entebbe, mentioned he used to be now not embarrassed and the sentence would lend in serving to to prevent social media assaults towards society together with the individual of the president.

“This court hopes that by the time the convict leaves prison, he would have learnt that abusing people in the name of getting content is bad,” she mentioned.

She added that he had the appropriate to attraction towards the sentence inside 14 days.

He used to be convicted underneath a debatable modification in 2022 to the Pc Wastage Occupation.

It made it unlawful to “write, send, or share any information through a computer, which is likely to ridicule, degrade, or demean another person, group of persons, a tribe, an ethnicity, a religion or gender”.

In its human rights document on Uganda extreme 12 months, the United States Environment Area mentioned the “authorities used this law to intimidate internet users from criticizing government policies”.

Rights teams additionally frequently denounce the Ugandan government over violations of human rights and the liberty of voice.

In 2022, award-winning Ugandan creator Kakwenza Rukirabashaija used to be charged with two counts of “offensive communication” later making unflattering remarks in regards to the president and his son on Twitter.

He fled the rustic to Germany later spending a presen in prison, the place he mentioned he have been tortured.