Ugandan rights activists have called for the release of prominent novelist and government critic Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, arrested in Kampala by armed men, according to his lawyer.
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Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, an outspoken critic of President Yoweri Museveni, won plaudits for his 2020 satirical novel The Greedy Barbarian describing corruption in a fictional country.
"Armed men claiming to be from the Uganda Police Force" broke into Kakwenza Rukirabashaija s home on Tuesday, his lawyer Eron Kiiza said, adding that he had been on the telephone to his client at the time.