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Lawyer: Ugandan Writer Arrested for Second Time This Year

Halima Athumani

   KAMPALA, UGANDA - A Ugandan writer and critic of the government has
   been arrested for the second time this year, according to his lawyer.
   The lawyer says the move was prompted by an unpublished manuscript that
   details the writer's arrest, detention and alleged torture in April by
   military personnel.

   Security personnel thought to be from Uganda's Chieftaincy of Military
   intelligence stormed Kakwenza Rukirabashaija's home Friday morning and
   took him into custody.

   "He has been arrested this morning at 6:30, for continuing to write,"
   Rukirabashaija's lawyer, Eron Kiiza, told VOA in a phone interview.
   "Because he has been promising to publish the new book, 'Banana
   Republic,' that recounts his previous torture in April. And they
   arrested him in the presence of his wife and also in the presence of
   the chairman of the area."

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