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Elias Biryabarema

Ugandan author and Museveni critic re-arrested after freedom ruling

Uganda Kakwenza Rukirabashaija
FILE PHOTO: Ugandan author of "Greedy Barbarian" Kakwenza Rukirabashaija reads the book at his home in Iganga district in Eastern Uganda May 11, 2020. Picture taken May 11, 2020. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa/File Photo

A Ugandan court ordered an award-winning author and prominent government critic free on bail on Tuesday, but he was immediately arrested again, his lawyer said, prolonging weeks of detention that have brought accusations of torture.

Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, 33, is best-known for "The Greedy Barbarian," a novel about greed and corruption in a fictional country that has been widely interpreted as a satire about Uganda's long-serving President Yoweri Museveni.

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