“#Bobi #Wine and his entire campaign team arrested in #Kalangala! #Media blocked,” the tweet said.
#No further details of their arrest have yet been made available.
#He said one of his bodyguards was run over and killed #Sunday by a military police truck, while the guard was taking a journalist to the hospital.
#In an interview with CNN earlier this month, #Wine said he had nearly been killed on two occasions in recent weeks and urged the international community to hold #Uganda’s government accountable ahead of elections next month.
#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 limit campaigning before the election.
#United #Nations human rights experts on #Tuesday released a statement expressing serious concerns about the violence ahead of #Uganda’s presidential election. They urged authorities to “put an end to the arrest, detention and judicial harassment of political opponents, civil society leaders and human rights defenders.”
“#Since the publication of the guidelines on the conduct of elections during #Covid-19 in #June by the #Uganda #Electoral #Commission, we have witnessed gradual shrinking of civic space, and misuse and abuse of health-related restrictions to curb dissent in the country ahead of the election on 14 #January,” said the UN experts.
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##Bobi ##Wine ##Ugandan #presidential #challenger #team #arrested