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Uganda Election: Falana Takes Museveni To UN For Bobi Wine’s Detention

Uganda Election: Falana Takes Museveni To UN For Bobi Wine�

Following the just concluded Uganda presidential election held on Thursday, popular human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has filed a complaint against Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, for illegally detaining his main opponent, Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine.

Falana who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday said he has submitted a complaint against the government of Uganda to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concerning the detention of the detained couple.”

He said the pop star and his wife had been detained illegally for days without any criminal charges preferred against him.

He also said that the Ugandan opposition leader has been denied access to his lawyers which was a move on Museveni's part to prevent Wine from filing a petition against him as the winner of the presidential election.

Reacting to the illegal detention of Wine, Falana said: “We have submitted a complaint against the government of Uganda to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concerning the detention of the detained couple.”

Meanwhile, AllNews had on Saturday reported that Museveni, the incumbent president of Uganda, was declared the winner of the country's presidential election conducted on Thursday, January 14. 

The country's election commission said Museveni won 58.64% of the nearly 10 million ballots cast, while opposition leader Bobi Wine received 34.83% of the vote. 

The complaint by Falana, which was attached to the statement, read in part, “Mr Wine and his wife are being illegally detained for days without any criminal charges preferred against him.

"He has also been denied adequate supply of food by hundreds of Uganda military forces and policemen who have laid siege to his house for the umpteenth time since the election day.

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“I am therefore seeking an opinion from the Working Group finding the house arrest and continuing detention of Mr Wine and his wife to be arbitrary and in violation of Uganda’s Constitution of 1995 (as amended) and obligations under international human rights law including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights to which Uganda is a state party.”

It has also been reported that the Ugandan government had also shut down social media 24 hours to the election.

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