2006年VOA标准英语-Ugandan Opposition Candidate's Wife, Party
时间：2019-01-31 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（一月）
By Cathy Majtenyi
Nairobi
19 January 2006
The wife of Ugandan opposition 1 presidential candidate Kizza Besigye and a senior party official are scheduled to appear in court next week. The court appearance involves a confidential 2 letter the two sent to a senior judge last month expressing their concerns about bribery 4 in upcoming cases.
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Kizza Besigye, right, and his wife, Winnie Byanyima
In a letter last month, Winnie Byanyima and Jack 5 Sabiiti asked Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki to investigate claims that President Yoweri Museveni paid more than $100,000 to two high court judges to influence the outcome of opposition presidential candidate Kizza Besigye's upcoming treason, rape 6, and terrorism trials.
Byanyima and Sabiiti were issued criminal summons Tuesday and face four counts of libel and giving false information. They are scheduled to appear in court on January 24.
A defense 7 lawyer in Besigye's cases, Sam Njuba, says he thinks Chief Justice Odoki acted unprofessionally in publicizing the letter's contents. Njuba says the judge should have met with the letter's writers privately 8 and asked them to substantiate 9 the bribery claims.
Njuba says he believes the government set up the situation to make the opposition look bad.
"The state may have made some arrangement to trap them into believing the story and then turning around and saying, 'see how the opposition is behaving irresponsibly,'" he said. "They [the government] could have given them the information deliberately 10."
Senior presidential advisor 11 John Nagenda rejects the idea that the government supplied the two with false information to attack the opposition's reputation.
"I think it will take a mad person to just get the information [and] not check it out [and] put it out," he said. "If they fell for something which had been put there so in the end they would look stupid, then they deserve everything they get."
Nagenda calls the bribery allegations "absolute rubbish," and says he thinks it is not within the president's character to bribe 3 judges.
Opposition presidential candidate Kizza Besigye faces charges of terrorism and illegal possession of firearms in a military court, and treason and rape charges in civilian 12 court. He was detained for almost two months and was released several weeks ago.
It is widely believed that the charges are politically motivated, designed to prevent Besigye from campaigning fully 13 and to ruin his reputation.
The opposition politician was once Mr. Museveni's personal physician and is seen to be a serious contender against the president.
Mr. Museveni and his government have come under fire internationally for Besigye's detention 14. Sweden, Britain, Norway, Ireland and The Netherlands have withheld 15 part of their funding because of concerns about democracy.
- The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
- He refused to allow his secretary to handle confidential letters.他不让秘书处理机密文件。
- We have a confidential exchange of views.我们推心置腹地交换意见。
- He tried to bribe the policeman not to arrest him.他企图贿赂警察不逮捕他。
- He resolutely refused their bribe.他坚决不接受他们的贿赂。
- FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。
- He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。
- I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
- He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
- The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
- He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
- The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。
- There is little scientific evidence to substantiate the claims.这些主张几乎找不到科学依据来证实。
- These theories are used to substantiate the relationship between the phenomenons of the universe.这些学说是用来证实宇宙现象之间的关系。
- The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
- They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
- They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
- The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
- There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
- He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
- The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
- They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
- He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
- He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。