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#FreeBobbyWine: Kenyans now turn guns on strongman Paul Kagame

#FreeBobbyWine: Kenyans now turn guns on strongman Paul Kagame

Kenyans have now turned their heads towards Rwanda and are now demanding the freedom of Diane Rwigara, a prominent critic of President Paul Kagame, who has been in jail for almost a year now. Ms Rwigara was arrested and charged with inciting insurrection against the state, as well as other offences. She was blocked from […]

Blow-By-Blow Account of Bobi Wine’s Arrest

Blow-By-Blow Account of Bobi Wine’s Arrest

Kampala — Kyadondo East Member of Parliament, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine’s brother has narrated how events preceding his arrest unfolded during a campaign rally in the Arua Municipality by-election up to his incarceration in Makindye Military Barracks. Mr Eddy Yawe, an elder brother to Mr Kyagulanyi, during a press conference in Kampala yesterday […]

East African Activists Urge Museveni to Release Bobi Wine

East African Activists Urge Museveni to Release Bobi Wine

The arrest and alleged torture of the singer-turned-politician Bobi Wine sparked angry protests Monday, and has led to calls from civil society groups in Tanzania and Kenya for him to be released. His popularity is seen as a test for Museveni’s government. “It’s politics at play,” Bobi Wine’s lawyer Medard Ssegona told RFI. “The regime […]

The #FreeBobiWine Wave, and Signs of Hope in the Madness

The #FreeBobiWine Wave, and Signs of Hope in the Madness

The last few days have seen a remarkable amount of what in the old days the ruling NRM cadres liked to call “primitive violence”. They no longer describe it that way, because today it is mostly their security agencies meting the violence out. Following alleged stoning of a car in a presidential convoy in the […]

Mabirizi Goes to Court Over Bobi Wine’s Trial

Mabirizi Goes to Court Over Bobi Wine’s Trial

Kampala — Lawyer Male Mabirizi has petitioned the Constitutional Court to order for the immediate release of Kyaddondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine and others who were charged in the army court and detained in military prison. In his petition, Mr Mabirizi contends that Section 119 (1) (g) of the Uganda People’s Defence […]

Why Muslims Have Rejected President Museveni’s Eid Message

Why Muslims Have Rejected President Museveni’s Eid Message

Muslims online have rejected a message by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni wishing them a happy Eid celebration. Mr Museveni took to his Twitter handle to send a his joyful message to Muslims as they marked Eid ul-Adha celebrations. “Salutations to the Muslim community in Uganda and beyond as you celebrate the ‘festival of sacrifice’ may […]

Bobi Wine Riots – Army Commander Orders Arrest of Brutal Soldiers

Bobi Wine Riots – Army Commander Orders Arrest of Brutal Soldiers

The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Gen David Muhoozi, has ordered the arrest and punishment of soldiers who brutalised and harassed journalists who were covering a joint security operation against protestors who were on Monday demanding the release of jailed politicians including Kyaddondo East member of Parliament, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine. The order […]

Where Are the People in People Power?

Where Are the People in People Power?

After the victory of MP-elect Kassiano Wadri Ezati, 61, and the violence that followed thereafter, it is important to visit the role of mass mobilisation against the 32-year-old regime of President Museveni and NRM. A budding movement called “People Power” led by the Kyadondo East MP, Robert Sentamu, Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, featured prominently in […]

Arua Has Decided, So Let’s Move and Discuss the Human Rights

Arua Has Decided, So Let’s Move and Discuss the Human Rights

The Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga, sending a team of parliamentarians to Gulu and Arua is good, but Ugandans deserve better. How about our legislators joining the African Centre for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (ACTV), member organisations of the Coalition Against Torture(CAT), the National Coalition for Human Rights Defenders(NCHRDs) and the Uganda Human Rights Commission(UHRC) […]

The Shared Guilt for the Blood in Arua

The Shared Guilt for the Blood in Arua

Dear Tingasiga; The image of a man, newly dead in Arua, slumped in his boss’s car, with fresh blood dripping onto the road, haunts me still. The dead man, Yasin Kawuma, young enough to be my son, but a father and husband, dead forever, killed in Arua, as though a rat in a granary, mere […]

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