Quaint crimes under the Ugandan Penal Code

s. 40 – sedition

Sedition is often used to prosecute uppity journalists. Dozens are currently on trial, including the editor of the Independent – one of the few publications often critical of the government – for merely publishing a quotation from a former government soldier claiming he had been ordered to masquerade as a Lord’s Resistance Army rebel and commit massacres to discredit the movement.

s. 53 – Defamation of foreign princes
s. 118 – Writing or uttering words with intent to wound religious feelings
s. 165 – Chain letters
s. 168 – Rogues and vagabonds.
s. 266 – Cattle rustling