Bobi Wine, Ugandan presidential challenger, and team arrested

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“Bobi Wine and his entire campaign team were arrested in Kalangala. The media blocked it,” the tweet said.

No further details have been released on his arrest.

Wine is challenging incumbent President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power for more than 30 years, in the Jan. 14 election.
The presidential candidate has accused Museveni of being a dictator responsible for human rights abuses, after at least 45 people died in protests last month sparked by Wine’s previous arrest for violating coronavirus regulations at a campaign rally. .

He said one of his bodyguards was hit and killed Sunday by a military police truck while the guard was carrying a journalist to the hospital.

A Ugandan army spokesman denied that Wine’s bodyguard had been attacked.

In an interview with CNN earlier this month, Wine said he had almost been assassinated twice in recent weeks and urged the international community to hold the Ugandan government accountable before next month’s election. it comes.

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

Bobi Wine of Uganda says his bodyguard was run over and deliberately killed

UN human rights experts issued a statement on Tuesday expressing serious concerns about violence ahead of Uganda’s presidential election. They urged the authorities to “end the detention, detention and harassment of political opponents, civil society leaders and human rights defenders.”

Nicholas Opiyo, a prominent human rights activist, was arrested along with four other people on December 23. He is accused of money laundering and will be tried accordingly, according to a statement from authorities.

“Since the publication of the guidelines on holding elections during the Covid-19 in June by the Uganda Electoral Commission, we have witnessed a gradual reduction of civic space and misuse and abuse of restrictions. health-related measures to curb dissent in the country ahead of the January 14 elections, “UN experts said.

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