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UN rights experts urge Uganda to halt pre-election violence, arrests

UN rights experts urge Uganda to halt pre-election violence, arrests

UNITED Nations human rights experts have called on Uganda to rein in violent security forces and drop charges against political opponents and activists arrested in what the experts termed an election clampdown. Popstar Bobi Wine has emerged as the strongest challenger to President Yoweri Museveni in the presidential election scheduled for January 14. On Sunday Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, said one of his bodyguards was killed when military police ran him over while Wine's convoy was taking a wounded journalist to seek medical help. Military police said the bodyguard had fallen from a speeding car. "We are…
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