KAMPALA, Uganda -                                       A prominent Ugandan activist Dr. Stella Nyanzi sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for harassing President Yoweri Museveni.

The trial magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu said she based her verdict on the ground that the convict (Stella Nyanzi) is unrepentant and that cyber harassment is on the increase in Uganda

The judgment means that Stella Nyanzi will only serve 9 months in prison since she has so far served another nine months.

Stella Nyanzi was not physically present in court as the Magistrate opted to use video conferencing technology.

Drama ensued as she appeared on screen protesting the decision by the authorities to use video conferencing instead of producing her physically in court. She was also bitter that the authorities had muted her voice as she made appearance on video conferencing.

As part of her protest Nyanzi refused to listen to the sentence and exposed her breasts to court, shouting on top of her voice while swinging her breasts.

She said she was brought to the dock at prison to listen to the judgment against her will.

After the sentence, several of her sympathizers who had gathered in and out side the Buganda Magistrate court in Kampala resorted to singing and shouting and in the process it made it hard to listen to the last words the magistrate.

In the process, unknown person threw a bottle at the magistrate which forced her to prematurely leave the courtroom.

Security swung into action to arrest those suspected of being behind the commotion.

Nyanzi who was originally detained and tried in July 2017 for calling Museveni “a pair of buttocks” was arrested again in November 2018 and has since spent nine months in prison for what prosecutors described as a “brutish attack on the person of the President and his late mother”.

Upon her conviction yesterday, Nyanzi said she was “very disappointed at the verdict of offensive communication against Yoweri Museveni”, who has been in power since 1986.

“I intended to annoy Yoweri Museveni. We are tired of his dictatorship”, she was quoted as saying.

She has also hit out at the president’s wife Janet Museveni, who is Uganda’s education minister, accusing her of abandoning a campaign promise of free sanitary towels in schools.

A research associate at Kampala’s prestigious Makerere University, Nyanzi holds a doctorate on sexuality in Africa.