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Kenyan Activists Freed After Month in Ugandan Custody as Museveni Confirms Arrest

Their return followed Kenyan diplomatic pressure, with the pair alleging inhumane detention by special forces.

Overview

  • Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Minister Musalia Mudavadi said Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo were handed to the Kenyan ambassador and arrived home on Saturday.
  • The activists say they were held and interrogated in a military facility guarded by Uganda’s Special Forces Command under inhumane conditions.
  • They vanished on Oct. 1 after attending a Bobi Wine rally in Kampala, a detention Uganda initially denied before President Yoweri Museveni acknowledged it.
  • Museveni alleged the two worked with opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi and called them “experts in riots,” while warning that protests would “end up badly.”
  • Amnesty Kenya, Vocal Africa and the Law Society of Kenya welcomed the release and facilitated their transfer to Nairobi as concerns over cross-border abductions intensify.