Uganda opposition leader Bobi Wine put under house arrest

Published January 18th, 2024 - 08:42 GMT
Uganda
Uganda opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, looks on during a scuffle in which local and foreign journalists have been assaulted by Uganda Military Police outside the UN Human RIghts offices on February 17, 2021. Wine was delivering a petition the the UN offices for alleged human rights abuses on his supporters by Ugandan security forces during the 2021 Presidential campaign. / AFP / Badru KATUMBA

ALBAWABA - Uganda's opposition leader and former presidintial candidate Bobi Wine has stated that police patrols have surrounded his house and "put him under house arrest". 

"The cowardly military & police have surrounded our home and put us under house arrest, but the protest is on," said Bobi Wine in a post on X.

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