The leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) Mr Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has instructed his lawyers to withdraw the presidential poll petition which he had filed in the Supreme Court, challenging President Museveni’s victory in the January 14 general election. “We are withdrawing from the courts but we …
Read More »Ugandan reporters covering rights petition badly beaten
The security forces in Uganda have injured several journalists who were reporting on pop star-turned politician Bobi Wine delivering a petition to the UN highlighting human rights abuses in the country. Eyewitnesses said soldiers arrived in trucks outside the UN Human Rights Office in the capital, Kampala, and started beating …
Read More »Three suspected rebels arrested in Uganda
According to the Ugandan police, three suspected rebels who were allegedly plotting subversive activities were arrested. They were arrested in the distrisct of Luwero about 40 kilometers (24.8 miles) from Kampala. The suspects, two women and a man, according to police, were allegedly planning subversive activities after the election, which …
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