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8th July, 2026 STATEMENT ON PLEA BARGAINS INVOLVING SOME NUP POLITICAL PRISONERS As the nation knows, over 150 supporters of the National Unity Platform are currently in detention over trumped-up charges. Some of these comrades have been in prison for years. Our legal teams have done and continue to do everything within the law to secure their release. Indeed, we have secured the release of hundreds of our people who were illegally detained during and after the recent elections. However, following numerous bail denials and Museveni’s recent remarks directing judicial officers not to release our people on bail, some of our comrades have opted to plead guilty or enter into plea bargains for offences everyone knows they did not commit. By taking this step, these comrades are not in any way admitting that they committed any offences, but they consider it to be the quickest path available for them to get out of the long periods of detention without trial. Our position on this matter remains that while we never encourage anyone to incriminate themselves, we never judge those who, being weighed down by the numerous challenges that come with illegal detention, choose to plead guilty and come out of jail. More so, if they do so within clear known legal processes such as plea bargaining. What is more important is how those comrades behave when they are released. This is, therefore, to call upon our people to understand this situation. As for those who insist on their innocence and choose to wait longer, they are even bigger heroes who deserve to be celebrated and supported every day.