Bobi Wine, Ugandan presidential challenger, and team arrested

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“Bobi Wine and his entire campaign team arrested in Kalangala! Media blocked,” the tweet said.

No further details of their arrest have been disclosed yet.

Wine challenges incumbent President Yoweri Museveni – who has been in power for more than 30 years – in the January 14 elections.
The presidential candidate has accused Museveni of being a dictator responsible for human rights abuses after at least 45 people died in protests sparked by Wine’s earlier arrest for violating coronavirus rules last month. campaign meeting.

He said one of his bodyguards was run over and killed by a military police truck on Sunday while the guard took a reporter to the hospital.

A Ugandan army spokesman denied that Wine’s bodyguard was the target.

In an interview with CNN earlier this month, Wine said he had nearly died twice in recent weeks and urged the international community to hold the Ugandan government to account ahead of next month’s election.

While authorities have said the restrictions are necessary to curb the spread of Covid-19, opposition members and their supporters say they are an excuse to curtail the pre-election campaign.

Ugandan Bobi Wine says his bodyguard was

Human rights experts from the United Nations released a statement on Tuesday expressing serious concern about the violence ahead of Uganda’s presidential election. They urged the authorities to “end the arrest, detention and judicial harassment of political opponents, civil society leaders and human rights defenders”.

Nicholas Opiyo, a prominent human rights activist, was arrested on December 23, along with four other persons. He is charged with money laundering and will be tried accordingly, the authorities said.

“Since the publication of the guidelines on the conduct of the Covid-19 elections in June by the Ugandan Electoral Commission, we have witnessed a gradual shrinking of the social space and the abuse and misuse of health-related restrictions to curb dissent in the country ahead of the elections on January 14, ”said UN experts.

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