Ugandan independent MP and musician Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine, will be arraigned in court on Thursday, charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition.
Ahead of the case, he has hired a US lawyer Robert Amsterdam.
Mr Amsterdam described his client’s arrest as a “politically motivated act of repression” and alleges that he has been tortured in custody.
The army, which is holding Mr Kyagulanyi, denies that he has been tortured and President Yoweri Museveni has dismissed the claims as “fake news”.
Mr Kyagulanyi won a bye-election last year.
He has been held since last week, along with four fellow MPs and dozens of others.
They were campaigning in a bitterly contested bye-election in Arua in the north of the country.
Mr Amsterdam is recommending that the US should “hit [government] officials in their wallets with a Magnitsky-style sanctions schedule as they need to…
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