Activist who branded Uganda president ‘a dirty, delinquent dictator’ faces jail

Stella Nyanzi vows to persist with criticism of Yoweri Museveni after being found guilty of cyber harassment

Stella Nyanzi, the Ugandan women's rights activist and staunch government critic who once called head of state Yoweri Museveni "a pair of buttocks", has been found guilty of cyber harassment against the president.

Nyanzi, a former researcher at Makerere University, was arrested on 2 November after posting a poem on Facebook that the state deemed abusive towards Museveni and his late mother.