'Bobi Wine and four others including his brother and his bodyguard have been remanded to prison until May 2.'
"The state claims my clients in July 2018, held a demonstration against the social media tax without notifying the police contrary to the provisions of Public Order Management Act," he said.
"The state further claims the accused refused to cooperate with police to ensure participants in the alleged demonstration were unarmed and peaceful. All the claims have been denied by him and the others," he added. Wine and other activists had held a demonstration in Kampala against a two shilling fee for cellular phone users to pay for access to social media links.
Wine entered parliament in 2017. One of his songs contains the lyric"freedom fighters become dictators," while others hint that Museveni has stayed in power too long. The 74-year-old leader has ruled Uganda since seizing power at the head of a rebel army in 1986 but intends to contest a sixth term in office.
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