Court reinstates dismissed Besigye case
The Constitutional court has reinstated Rtd Col Dr Kizza Besigye's case challenging police Act's sections on the preventive arrest. The said sections 24 and 26 give powers to police to arrest a person suspected of being about to commit an offence against himself or the public. On the 5th of October 2020, the Constitutional court dismissed the petition filed in 2011, on grounds that Besigye had shown no interest in the case as since neither he nor his lawyer Ernest Kalibaala showed up in court.