A complaint has been filed by Nigerian human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), at the United Nations against Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, for illegally detaining his main opponent Robert Kyagulanyi well known as Bobi Wine, in the recently concluded Presidential election.
In a bid to prevent Kyagulanyi from filing a petition against the declaration of Museveni as the winner of the highly flawed Presidential election Falana in a statement on Tuesday said he had been denied access to his lawyers.
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,”
Part of the statement read: “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.”
