Uganda opposition pop star says soldiers beat, tortured him
KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan soldiers beat up pop star-turned-lawmaker Bobi Wine and squeezed his genitals until he passed out, he charged on Monday, three days after he departed for the United States for medical care for the injuries he allegedly sustained while in detention.
Soldiers “violated me as if they were beasts,” said Wine, whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, in his first public statement since his arrest on Aug. 14 for his alleged role in an incident in which the president’s motorcade was pelted with stones.
“They wrapped me in a thick piece of cloth and bundled me into a vehicle,” he said. “Those guys did to me unspeakable things in that vehicle! They pulled my manhood and squeezed my testicles while punching me with objects I didn’t see.”
A doctor later told him that one of his “kidneys … had been damaged during the assault.”