Kampala, Uganda.

Ugandan academic and activist, Dr Stella Nyanzi, has won an appeal in the High Court, for a case in which she had been convicted for cyber harassing President Yoweri Museveni.

Ms Nyanzi had been convicted over a September 2018 Facebook post in which she referred to the President’s mother’s private parts.

She was sentenced to 18 months in jail in August 2019, and was already nearing the end of her jail-term.

Dr. Nyanzi refused bail during her trial, and had therefore already served nine months in jail when she was convicted.

In the series of Facebook posts, Nyanzi, who was a research fellow at Makerere University in Kampala, drew the government’s wrath for her attacks on him and her commentary, laced with profanity, including calling the president “a pair of buttocks.”