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Bobi Wine’s Lawyer Amsterdam asks international community to keep close eye on Uganda

JAVIRA SSEBWAMI | PML Daily Staff Writer by JAVIRA SSEBWAMI | PML Daily Staff Writer
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Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi with his lawyer, Robert Amsterdam of Amsterdam & Partners LL (PHOTO/File)

KAMPALA — Following the arrest of his client Mr. Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine by state security forces while at a voter consultation meeting last week, international lawyer Robert Amsterdam of Amsterdam & Partners LLP condemned what he saw as yet another sign of President Museveni’s increasingly unapologetic authoritarianism.

Mr. Amsterdam has represented Mr. Kyagulanyi since August 2018 after his client was arrested on what he called trumped up, yet-to-be-proven charges ranging from “obstructing the president’s motorcade” to “illegal possession of a firearm.”

Mr. Amsterdam is a staunch supporter of the People Power political movement embodied by his client and friend Bobi Wine, and has dedicated himself to protecting Mr. Bobi Wine’s rights and wellbeing.

Writing in The Guardian 2018, Mr. Amsterdam admits that “Bobi Wine is in many ways an unlikely figure to become a symbol of opposition. He is new to politics, only winning his seat as an independent last year [2017], and is not tied to one of the major opposition parties.”

And while that may still be the case, Bobi Wine has quickly become one of the most recognizable figures in Ugandan and African politics.

Naturally, Yoweri Museveni, who’s been President of Uganda since 1986, has identified the self-described “ghetto president” and his People Power movement as a threat, making additional attacks on political liberties and violations of human rights in Uganda all the more likely as the 2021 general election approaches.

To be sure, Amsterdam maintains the same opinion he published shortly after hearing Bobi Wine’s story for the first time, that “It is the responsibility of the international community to take action to halt the human rights abuses in Uganda.

He said Uganda is in clear violation of the international covenant on civil and political rights, the UN convention against torture, the African Charter of Human Rights of the African Union, and a number of other international treaties.

“It is the responsibility of the international community to take action to halt the human rights abuses in Uganda.”

“Bobi Wine is a powerful voice for change in Uganda and other nations bearing the burden of despotism, and that makes him a target.”

“Global defenders of democracy ought to keep their eyes turned towards Uganda, otherwise the regime of President Yoweri Museveni will employ the same violently repressive tactics it has for years.”

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