prerogative of mercy

President Yoweri Museveni has exercised Article 121(1)(a) of the constitution to pardon 79 prisoners, including Doralys Rodriguez Fagundez, a Venezuelan national who was arrested in June of 2018 and had been serving a sentence for drug…

President Yoweri Museveni has pardoned 833 prisoners to decongest prisons as one of the measures to control the spread of COVID-19. "In an exercise of the powers vested in the President under article 121 (1)(a) of the Constitution of the…