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The Ugandan authorities must immediately end police and military siege on opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi’s home and free him and his wife Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi. This is an arbitrary detention, declared Amnesty International at a time when the siege entered the seventh (7th) day after Gen Museveni controversially declared the winner by his hand-picked Electoral Commission. Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu and his wife, Barbara Kyagulanyi, are being held under house arrest without being presented before a judge and for a non-cognizable offence, said Deprose Muchena, the Director for East and Southern Africa. In a controversial announcement, without specifying the name of the district where the results come from; Kyagulanyi a. k. a Bobi Wine, was declared runner-up by the Electoral Commission in last week’s presidential election, with 34.8% of the vote, behind President Yoweri Museveni, who it said got 58.6%. Bobi Wine and his National Uni
The Ugandan authorities must immediately lift the police and military siege of opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi’s home and release him and his wife Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi. This is an arbitrary detention, said Amnesty International as the post-election blockade entered its 7th day. Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, was declared runner-up by the Electoral
EU and US call for probe into Uganda election violence as Bobi Wine remains under house arrest
The European Union has joined a growing number of international voices calling for a probe into Ugandan election abuses and violence that left more than 40 people dead in the lead up to the polls.
Opposition candidates were harassed by security forces, the media was suppressed by the government, and observers’ offices were raided, said the EU Council of Ministers in a statement on Wednesday.
It called on all parties to refrain from violence and for “election challenges and complaints to be addressed in an independent and transparent manner.”