Uganda, April 21 -- Last week, the General Court Martial (GCM) at Makindye, Kampala, for the third time, refused to grant bail to 28 prisoners; young men and women of the National Unity Platform (NUP).

Their only crime, as everybody knows, was to oppose the current government. That, in Uganda, is worse than aggravated robbery and murder combined; even with a violent rape thrown in somewhere in the mix!

The ruling completely ignored the law and the facts. How can there be "no merit" (as the GCM ruled) in a bail application where we are talking about young people, who everyone knows are being framed, and have been in jail for three years now?

Do the members of the GCM still feel able to eat their food with full appetite, and go to bed an...