Ugandan author Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, who has accused the authorities of torturing him while he was in detention, has fled the country, his lawyer has confirmed to the BBC.

The lawyer did not reveal where the award-winning writer, who had been granted bail by a court, had gone.

Kakwenza has left Uganda for fear of his life, and he will finding his way to a European Country in the next few hours. He could not remain here because his life was directly in jeopardy and it's unfortunate the Military find it difficult to protect Uganda but some errant officers including high-ranking ones are misusing state resources to maim, injure and oppress Ugandans, his lawyer Eron Kiiza said.

Rukirabashaija had sought permission to leave the country to seek treatment for injuries he says he sustained during his recent month in detention at an unknown location.

But the court refused to give the novelist his passport.

Rukirabashaija was arrested in December and charged with offensive communication for making unflattering remarks about President Yoweri Museveni and his son on Twitter.

In one he called the President’s son - Army General Muhoozi Kainerugaba - "obese".

His trial is meant to begin on 23 March.

Rukirabashaija is best known for The Greedy Barbarian, a satirical novel which describes high-level corruption in a fictional country, and Banana Republic: Where Writing is Treasonous.

The latter is an account of the torture he was subjected to while in detention two years ago.

Last year, he won the Pen Pinter Prize for an international writer of courage.

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Rukirabashaija accused the Magistrate who denied him his passport as been an "enabler of the outlawlessness."

To the bespectacled pigheaded magistrate at Buganda Road, Dr. Douglas Singiza, since you value my passport more than you do to my life and non-derogable rights, you have ashamed the profession because you chose to proliferate persecution against me. You're a disgrace! Now, put my passport in the dock and try it. I won't face you again, dear bumlicker of Museveni and Muhoozi. You are an enabler of the outlawlessness. Pursuant to the human rights Act, you had the discretion to observe my rights and discharge me other than whittling down my plea of torture.

Clearly, these crooks have made me a pariah in the country I call home and I will not capitulate to their offers(appointments and material wealth).

A magistrate whose head or mouth doesn't spew justice deserves to be called a fool.

According to Kakwenza's account, Lt. Gen. Muhoozi personally participated in his torture, most of which took place at a torture chamber he believes is in Entebbe. On two occasions, Muhoozi met him and demanded that he stops criticising the regime, or else the worst will happen to him.

After brutalising him in this manner, he said he was offered a job not to show his torture wounds to the world- and for him to stop writing!

Army General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, is the Commander of the Land Forces of the UPDF & son to President Museveni. He denied ever meeting Kakwenza:

I don't know who this young boy is whom they say was beaten! I never heard of him until the media started talking about him. I've never met him or talked to him and I have no desire to do so. I have just been speaking to President @PaulKagame and he says he is not in Rwanda!!

Kakwenza fired back immediately:

This idiot must be drunk. I met him 3 times and he was in charge of my torture. He even bought me clothes after what I had, got shredded and bloodied. Khaki Trouser, shirt, sweater, vest and underwear.

Kakwenza, it is believed went through the land borders in Rwanda. A few minutes ago, he posted a message on his verified Facebook wall: "Welcome to Malawi."

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every barbaric act is in Africa. disrespect to human rights,dictatorship is in Africa. Thats why alots of coups happening.

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That's what we called journalism.

Dammmmmnn!!!!.....this is barbaric

Jesus this is Terrible



You wantu Bamba

The President’s Son would be worse than IDI’AMI



He’s an OBOTE man

Ok

African leaders are the same everywhere. Very terrible people.

Black people in general are bad people. If not then why do we have bad leaders. These leaders are selected from amongst us.

Our leaders are reflection of who we are as a people.

I once work in a firm where the white people that owns the company approved a sum of 4000 naira to be paid for casual workers per day. You won't believe that these our black managers were paying us 1800 and pocketing the rest. Is that not gross wickedness.

Ok..... they you know why they call you guys third world country

How did he flee?

The immigration Boss needs to be fired.

No one should undergo such torture... just imagine the trauma and abuse experienced because he stood with truth as a journalist

Ah Jesu. We are blacks, does our attitude and brains have to be black too?

Stealing money to develop other people's countries, buying dozens of houses you won't live in, buying expensive cars with public funds and still rub it in our faces.

Sending your kids to school abroad while your country's school's rot, feeding fat while Inflation ravages the economy.

You will all be surprised to hear the amount of crypto currency our politicians have stacked away in different wallets, funds stacked in soak aways, gigantic mansions bought never to be used or lived in.

With the way our leaders think like scavengers, and acting aggressively to criticism, we won't get there in the next 50 years.
E go better, e go better, naso rice take rise from 1kobo to 500 naira per derica.

Africa is a shithole

Donald trump

If they have APC in that country it won't take them time to deny it

manchinkids:
Dictators will be the end of Africa if care is not taken

Dictatorship is the best for Africa as a whole.

If we want to make big moves like China did, we need orders and not deliberation.

Sigh... Africans!!!

What is Museveni really trying to turn Uganda into?
Man has been in power since the 80s and is still torturing and killing people to stay on!
What kind of evil creation is that?

Oboy, see person body. Ba wa for Africa oo. Baba buhari govt dey learn where museveni govt dey for disrespect for mankind and caging of journalism that should be practiced with every level of freedom.

And here we are thinking that all of these dictatorial nonsense stopped in Ugandan after the demise of the Idi Ami of Ugandan.

This is barbaric! When will Africa get it right politically?

Africa my Africa

Na wa o.....see beating .....

Omicron007:




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I cover David Hundeyin with the blood of Jesus.



BMCs and TMCs hate that guy so much.

he's safe. He's notnin Nigeria. It's journalist like Fisayo Soyombo and co that's fear for.

Issokay!!!

... dem suppose gintar your eyes join as u say you want die for Africa.






Gone are the days of premium journalism, effective mass protests, patriotism, Free press, solidarity... Gone are those days. The West don't care about what goes down in Africa.
They will only care about Ukraine, Isreal, Taiwan, Korea, HK ...
.... Anything Africa dey say we totally deserve it!



WE ALLOWED OURSELVES GET HERE

Nawaooo

Dis one loud ooo....

Try this shit on any Nigerian citizen and watch ur career swimming in the mud...

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.