{"id":28614,"date":"2022-01-27T13:16:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T10:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=28614"},"modified":"2022-01-27T13:16:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T10:16:08","slug":"author-kakwenza-dumped-at-gate-of-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/author-kakwenza-dumped-at-gate-of-his-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Kakwenza Dumped At Gate of His Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ugandan author accused of insulting the president and his family has been released after being re-arrested moments after a court freed him on bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kakwenza Rukirabashaija was \u201cdumped\u201d by the military at the gate of his home in eastern Uganda on Wednesday, his lawyer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The novelist\u2019s wife also confirmed the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawyer said the author was unwell and had been taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award-winning writer was charged with offensive communication after he was accused of insulting President Yoweri Museveni, and his son, Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He successfully obtained bail from a Kampala court before he was rearrested in unclear circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His lawyer said he was &#8220;kidnapped&#8221; from prison by men in plain clothes and taken to an unknown location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author won acclaim for his 2020 satirical novel The Greedy Barbarian which describes high-level corruption in a fictional country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was awarded the 2021 PEN Pinter Prize for an international writer of courage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandan author accused of insulting the president and his family has been released after being re-arrested moments after a court freed him on bail. 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