Nigerian human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has filed a complaint at the United Nations against the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, over the illegal detention of his main opponent in the just concluded Presidential election, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine.
In a statement on Tuesday, Falana said Bobi Wine had been denied access to his lawyers in a bid to prevent him from filing a petition against the result of the Presidential election.
Part of Falana’s statement says, “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.
“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.”
