A prominent opposition figure in Uganda has been released on bail – and says he was tortured in detention.
Presidential candidate Bobi Wine was arrested at a campaign rally on Wednesday and has been charged with breaking coronavirus restrictions.
The arrest sparked protests and a violent crackdown – the police say at least 37 people were killed.
Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb reports.
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#Uganda #BobiWine #BobiWine
The country isn’t growing at all poverty is just increasing
You talk of poverty, you need the job to look for you. Your just spending time in bating
That’s factually incorrect, poverty in uganda has decreased by pver 20 percent, however income inequality has grown.
@Mac mcskullface now let’s talk about human development index
You Tumwiine? Are you mad or what? To shoot what? An animal or a human being? “Gende bakwine muti through your mukundu we!” And if you are not out of your conscience, then you are a pure demon in human form. How can an old man like you, a so called senior officer could speak evil? How long will you keep killing innocent people? Your days are numbered Mr Tumwine. Someone who cannot even catch a fugitive duck. The blood of Jesus is against you! May the angel of the Lord struck you with madness in the name of Jesus 🙏 🥺🥺
Museveni suppress alternative leadership while the so called conflict resolutionist In the likes of Manthanga remain mum.waiting for catastrophie, in their mother land to erupt.
Hello Mr Tumwine, how dare are you? Do you think you can kill 40 millions of Ugandans? Unakata hadiths mchana wewe! Tubuni na ombeni msamaha kwa waganda, watawasamehe. Kinacho kuwa na mwanzo kina mwisho. Sasa Mungu anasema, wakati wenu umekwisha!!🥺🥺
First you see the old man said when u make violence the police have light to shoot u.Old age they don’t know what he is saying.Let young people choose there leader.
Njyewe ndi kisoro. Ariko mbabwire mwe baganda Bobi Wine ari mu kwaha kwa Museveni. Mubihorere kuko muri gupfa mupfira ubusa. Ko bishe mwebwe mushyigikiye Bobi ntibice Bobi ubwe yabajyanye kwigaragambya akabashuka mutwike amaduka ,imodoka zabandi. Ahubwo muri bwicwe mushire kandi Bobi yarangije kwinjiza frw y’imiryango we.
Death , you will every day. Stay at home . The plan of God about changing Uganda it will come in 2030 without killing people. Stop joking with life of your people.
MUSEVENI Is killing alot of innocent uganda! But impunity never go unpunished
You will regret because you don’t know what’s freedom n democracy means. Africans 😂
Tayari wameanza kuwatoa kafara wananchi
Hujinga mkubwa kwa watu hao kwasababu tu ya mtu kutaka madaraka mnasababisha yote hayo
Nakumbuka pia siku idi Amin Dada halipopindua nchi walitoka kwa wingi kumshangilia mwishowe kilichowakuta vizazi hivi hawajuhi naona watatamani kuyaishi “Dans la vie, on sait ce que l’on perd mais jamais ce que l’on gagne”
Nikweli Museven hametawala kwa muda mrefu sana hilitakiwa tangu sikunyingi haachie madaraka lakini huyu hajaye sina imani naye kabisa wanaomchukia Museven wanashangilia hilo ndio tatizo letu sisi wa Afrika hatujuhi kupambana kwa hoja lazima tutumie wananchi kwa maslai ya wanasiasa
But can’t that man leave Ugandans in peace we know you have the guns as you said yet us have nothing that’s why we remain non violent but you still push us to be m7 why😭 imagine spreading tirgas and live bullets inside the building with people hinding for the safety of their lives but you still order your police and army men to do so
Mzee wamekuchoka hao tafuta maarifa utaharibu nchi yako bure 35 years not enough?
We love Bobi Wine.. Museveni must go
Did i hear thousands of pple killed in kla? Iiih we need accuracy here, No need to say i sympatise with victims, but wea dd this guy get this statistics?
200 people were killed
We shall overcome 😖😩
PRESIDENT YOWERI KAGUTA M7 MUST GO 😭😭ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
People like that minister are exactly Uganda’s problem ordering police to kill sons and daughters of the land who have no employment, smuggled to other countries to work as salves; problems someone else is trying to address; what a pity to old African leaders!!
>what are wine’s policies? (do his supporters/opponents/himself even know?..do you
We are tired of Museveni’s governance.It’s not a crime for us to be killed
He must go goooooooooo enough is enough we have cried enough
Please God free us from this Dictator
ONLY IN UGANDA POLICE HAVE A RIGHT TO SHOOT IF YOU REACH A CERTAIN LEVEL…FOOLISH WORDS FROM MURDEROUS, DICTATOR LEADERS. IDI AMIN ERA IS BACK
M7son army boss whant do you expect
This old man should icc
I have never seen peaceful campaigns on the sides of the oppositions in Uganda . To day the are blaming covid -19
The police was correct, it could not leave hooligans with nothing to do, demonstrate and causing excitement over nothing
May The Almighty Allah protect and save our country from police brutality
We as patriotic ugandans we are in struggle against 35 years of dictatorship in our country but we know God is on our side and at the end we shall over come it.(for God and my country plus the entire world)
Police has a right to shoot you and kill you like seriously 😒
Dictators ☠️👷♀️👷♀️👷♀️
Museveni is commanding police and army both in uniform and non uniform to shoot and kill innocent Ugandans because he has no support from the public after 34 years of impoverishing Uganda while borrowing trillions of US dollars for his personal gain accumulating wealth in and outside the country, lots of taxes are collected but we don’t see where the money goes, all state institutions are owned and personalized by him and his family… We need a better Uganda and our only hope is Kyagulanyi Robert Sentamu aka BobiWine
1000s … We know so many hv died under m7 rule but 1000s hvnt been killed since Bobi was arrested. That’s a lie … No fact. Al Jazeera come on now!
We’re removing a dictator
A walk to freedom
In bobi we trust come what may
Come in huge number and vote for Kyagulanyi ✊
Ugandans ain’t safe
M7 must go rainy or sunny
I’m very sorry for Ugandans but Museveni should know that if he died he will be buried with casket not the throne
Bobi wine is our next president come what come may, we will not give up
THE POLICE OFFICERS ARE JUST FOOLS DID BOBI CALL THOSE PIPO
People who are killed by ugandan police more those killed by Covid19 what a shame to ugandan government
It’s easy to test, let them also put m7 in prison and see the happiness in the whole of Uganda. U can’t buy love
Ugandans, do not relent. Best wishes from Kenya
This dictatorship should stop we’re tired of injustice
People power our power 🥳🥳🥳🤩🤩🥳🤩🥳🤩
Is that police using machine gun on citizens thats genocide and war crime Museveni must fall
Senseless…state goons officers Opondo and they old senile minister…that the police have a right to kill?, whilst you gun down 37 unarmed civilians due to a COVID offense? Oh my GOD, what has humanity came to, regarding the sanctity of life like trash? The regime is living in a world of its own. God save such goons from own reckless impunity self demise!
What is ICC still doing .I expected M7 and his cronies to be in the HAQUE together with DOMINIQ OGWEN
M7 most goooooo
We need change
But you failed to mention that museveni and his campaigners break the covid rules (SOPS) all the time and nothing is done to them. Plus some of the people including children who were killed by bullets by the police weren’t even protesting. (police and army forces had no name tags and some were in civilian clothes).
Sure police has rigth to killed people?????????🙉🙀
We don’t want Bobi wine, we need Yoweri Kaguta Museven
Freedom freedom freedom real needed in our country DICTATORS live Ugandans alone
Macron!! Please help Museveni!! Please ,,🙏😭
all that support for an illuminati puppet…just because he is a pop star people support him. world governments (and the people for that matter) are a joke.
Mabasi
Well done guys
Museven must Go we don’t need him ,Ugandan we tired of museven for killing people,we need BOBI wine for president 2021
That’s a lie, 100 people lost thea lives only within Kampala alone
Change will come to apprehend dictatorship
Tomorrow’s you never no
Why r u people killing police which is here to protect us?
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Dictators in Africa Museveni failed leadership
Notunulira smoke man bobi weed amaso gamumyuse, which opinion gas ⛽ year
The African Union should step in.
M7 must fall
Am from uganda,kampala and the protests found me in the city centre,it was tense,in uganda we havent had a protest aganist the government like the bobi protest…i my self i was teargased while i was going home,the friend who i was with fainted on the way…and she had to be carried to hospital by good samaritans,the army was firing bullets carelessly…and i mean it was really tense…until now we dont know how it will look like after elections
Welborn mabuku
Blood nation
Me:I dont even know the country 😂
Killing people because they are not social distancing as per covid19 guidelines 🙄🙄 Dictatorship will end one day in Uganda.
You saying thousands killed and at the same time u write 37 killed.Are you crazy or bought
Bobi just stop visiting the US or Europe for political advice or u never get into power.
Still disgusted by these happenings. Uganda is bleeding has been bleeding and the rest of the world that is always calling upon us to be civil is SILENT
Museveni is not Ugandan he is from rwanda
The Ugandan constitutional guidelines no longer work, instead it is order from above
WTF??? Live rounds against unarmed citizens!!!! I thought western media said Idy Amin was ruthless…….what do we have now???
M7 must go
M7 is a refugee in Uganda go back to Rwanda
What does bobi want to do apart from whining? We are yet to hear about his plan for ugandans.
They deserve to be kill because they break the guidelines of Coronavrious. Like Musevine say they will discover what they looking for..this is corruptions from the youth.. they are idler without responsibility. This ghettos boy will loss this election and his life..
Did you know that Uganda is nicknamed Pearl of Africa?
That last spokesman he’s totally mad and crazy unconscious he said police have right to shot you an kill he is f**king mad for saying that rubbish to the people who’s made him to be the placed where he is today
I am praying for them to stay alive and let him win coz the policemen are killing everyone even the kids
Please UN where are you come out and protect our country Uganda 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 we are dying dead and night, we are burring our children coz this politics, thy are arresting BOBI WINE FOR no reason
Bobi wine 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿🇬🇳👈💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿☝🏾✌🏿✌🏿
Oolm
P0llp99900
And still police are proudly announcing the death toll, what creatures are these police, hawako sawa
After seeing this and remembering what @Joseph Kony said back in his interview in(2012) and evidently there is some truth to some of his words…Ugandans really are not free…He was a rebel and even though his methods of rebelling were not okay he was still telling the truth.
Bullets are teargas have become the cure of covid 19 in Uganda
Museveni is a dictator and he must go
Go fight for your life. New chances in Uganda. This president have to go. Over is over
Also you have rights. Police everywhere things are up the law is no true .people have tight to protest. And must protesting that police stop kill people
However much uganda needs change Bobwine still has no credentials of becoming a president
Nato help peoples of Uganda
We r tired of museveni. UN, NATO, AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN LEADERS, EUROPEAN UNION, and other agencies where are uuuu?? Could u plz hellllpppppp!!!!!
President has been in power for 34 years!!!