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Fugitive Ugandan Opposition fig Bobi Wine said connected Saturday (January 24, 2026) that his woman was rushed to the infirmary aft soldiers held her astatine gunpoint and strangled her during a convulsive raid connected their home.
Mr. Wine went into hiding aft a January 15 predetermination successful which President Yoweri Museveni, 81, was re-elected for a seventh word — a effect the Opposition person denounced arsenic "blatant theft".
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His lawyer urged the UN and the planetary assemblage to question guarantees for his information aft deadly threats pursuing elections marred by repression and an net blackout.
Mr. Wine said successful a station connected X connected Saturday (January 24, 2026) that "hundreds of soldiers" raided his location successful his absence, looting it and assaulting his wife.
"They enactment my woman connected gunpoint, asking her to uncover my whereabouts," helium wrote. "They strangled her and insulted her." "My woman was rushed to infirmary wherever she remains admitted -- dealing with each the carnal and intelligence trauma."
Mr. Museveni won 71.65% of the vote, compared with 24.72% for Mr. Wine, calved Robert Kyagulanyi, a 43-year-old erstwhile ragga vocalist turned politician.
Observers and NGOs criticised the results, pointing to an net shutdown lasting days and the repression of the Opposition.
Mr. Museveni's lad and service chief, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, threatened connected X to hunt down and termination Mr. Wine, successful a station that has since been deleted.
"In airy of these reckless statements, we urgently telephone connected the planetary community, including the United Nations, to request immediate, verifiable guarantees of Mr. Wine's information and guarantee helium tin instrumentality to his household without harm," said Robert Amsterdam, 1 of Mr. Wine's lawyers.
"Mr. Wine has committed nary crime. His lone offence is exposing, erstwhile again, the brutal and dictatorial quality of President Museveni's rule, done peaceful governmental absorption and the workout of cardinal rights," Mr. Amsterdam added.
Army main Kainerugaba boasted connected Friday (January 23) connected X that "so acold we person killed 30 NUP terrorists", referring to Wine's party, the National Unity Platform.
"We person arrested implicit 2,000 hooligans that Kabobi thought helium would use," Kainerugaba added, utilizing his nickname for Wine.
The European Union has expressed concern, saying: "We regret pre- and post-electoral unit and threats, peculiarly against Opposition person Robert Kyagulanyi."
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said helium was "following with interest the post-election concern successful Uganda, including reports of arrests, detentions and convulsive incidents involving absorption figures and supporters".
