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Media Barred from Opposition Leader's Trial.
Byline: Ephraim Kasozi
Dr Kizza Besigye yesterday promised to fight attempts to try him behind closed-doors after security agents stopped journalists and the public from entering Nabweru Court purportedly on the instructions of the magistrate.
Chief Magistrate Justine Atukwasa presided over the brief proceedings as scores of armed security personnel in police uniforms and plain clothes milled around the premises.
She adjourned the hearings to July 8, ostensibly to allow Dr Besigye's lawyer Earnest Kalibbala study prosecution documents and prepare for cross-examination and defence.
Ms Atukwasa is the same magistrate who controversially presided …
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