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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Lawyers for a Ugandan writer charged with insulting the country’s ruling family said their client was unlawfully detained on Tuesday in defiance of a court order for his release issued just hours earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s true. He has been rearrested from Kitalya Prison. The army collaborated with prison authorities to arrest him,\u201d his lawyer Eron Kiiza told this publication on phone.<\/p>\n

Charged with offensive communication, Mr Kakwenza had early January 25 successfully obtained bail from Buganda Road Court.<\/p>\n

Mr Kiiza said that instead of being released, the award-winning writer was “kidnapped” from prison by men in plain clothes and taken to an unknown location.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw him being driven away in a military vehicle,\u201d Mr Kiiza said adding that he \u201cwas not aware of any new charges slapped on his client.”<\/p>\n

\u201cA tinted numberless double cabin car has kidnapped Kakwenza Rukirabashaija from Kitalya Pison,\u201d Kampala City Deputy Lord Mayor Doreen Nyanjura claimed on Twitter.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Buganda Road Court Chief Magistrate, Mr Douglas Singiza granted Mr Kakwenza a Shs500,000 cash bail and his sureties were bonded at Shs10m not cash.<\/p>\n

Offensive tweets<\/b><\/p>\n

Rukirabashaija was charged on January 11 with “disturbing” veteran President Yoweri Museveni and his powerful son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, in a series of unflattering Twitter posts.<\/p>\n

In one post, he had described Kainerugaba — a general who many Ugandans believe is positioning himself to take over from his 77-year-old father — as “obese” and a “curmudgeon”.<\/p>\n

Mr Kiiza has said that multiple scars detailed in a prison medical examination of his client were “obvious marks of torture”, and that his detention in December was illegal.<\/p>\n

The United States, the EU and civil society groups have demanded his release and protection from persecution.<\/p>\n

The author won acclaim for his 2020 satirical novel, “The Greedy Barbarian”, which describes high-level corruption in a fictional country.<\/p>\n

He was awarded the 2021 PEN Pinter Prize for an International Writer of Courage, which is presented annually to a writer who has been persecuted for speaking out about their beliefs- Additional reporting by AFP<\/p>\n

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