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Denis Cecil Hills (8 November 1913 – 26 April 2004) was a British author, teacher, traveller and adventurer. He came to international prominence in 1975 while he was living in Uganda and was sentenced to death for espionage and sedition following comments about President Idi Amin in a book which Hills wrote.
4. Mai 2004 · Denis Hills, who has died aged 90, came to the world's attention in June 1975, when he was sentenced to death for "treason" by Idi Amin after describing the Ugandan dictator as a...
From her screen debut in the newly rereleased 1959 Soho sexposé Beat Girl to French pop stardom, from skimpy turns in Blowup and A Clockwork Orange to cult stardom as a book-cover illustrator and now to a musical revival… Gillian Hills has never been bored, she tells Trevor Johnston.
3. Mai 2004 · Denis Hills, a British writer, lecturer and adventurer once sentenced to death by Idi Amin for describing the Ugandan dictator as a “black Nero” and “village tyrant,” has died. He...
Denis Hills is widely remembered as the vocal British lecturer rescued from death row in Kampala, Uganda, by James Callaghan when he was Foreign Secretary. But perhaps his...
11. Juni 2014 · British professor and author Denis Hills (pictured right), a former military officer who found academics along his journey, traveled to Uganda in 1963 to resume his teaching duties. On this day...
7. Sept. 1975 · Last June 9, while residing in Uganda, the 61‐year‐old British author and lecturer Denis Cecil Hills was sentenced to death by firing squad for his uncomplimentary remarks, in an unpublished...
