Ugandan author 'dumped at home by gunmen' after release from jail -lawyer


FILE PHOTO: Ugandan author of "Greedy Barbarian" Kakwenza Rukirabashaija reads the book at his home in Iganga district in Eastern Uganda May 11, 2020. Picture taken May 11, 2020. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa//File Photo

KAMPALA (Reuters) - An award-winning Ugandan author was "dumped by gunmen" overnight outside his home, his lawyer said on Wednesday, after a court ordered his release from detention on charges related to criticism of the country's long-serving leader.

Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, who had been in jail for nearly a month, is awaiting trial for communications offences related to a series of tweets he posted in December about President Yoweri Museveni and his son, an army general.

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