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Uganda election: Falana condemns Bobi Wine’s detention, files complaint against Museveni
By Modupe Shodeinde
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has decried the illegal detention of presidential candidate of the recently concluded Ugandan election, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine.
Falana filed a complaint at the United Nations against the Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni for the illegal detention.
In a statement on Sunday, 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.”
According to Falana, Bobi Wine has also been denied access to his lawyers in a bid to prevent him from filing a petition against the declaration of Museveni as the winner of the highly flawed Presidential election.
The complaint was against illegal detention of Bobi Wine and his wife for days without any criminal charges preferred against him.
The complaint stated that “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.
“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.”
