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  • United Nations human rights experts have called on Uganda to rein in violence.

  • Security forces ahead oven election next month.

  • In that January 14th vote, pop star Bobby Wine has emerged as the strongest challenger to President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled Uganda for more than three decades.

  • But Wine, whose real name is Robert Golani, has complained that as support for his movement has grown, so too has violence from security forces.

  • This'll is what the police is doing.

  • On Sunday, Wine said one of his bodyguards was killed when military police ran him over while winds convoy was taking a wounded journalists to seek medical help.

  • Military police said the bodyguard had fallen from a speeding car.

  • On Tuesday, a statements from U.

  • N experts said they were gravely concerned by election related violence and a quote increasing crackdown on peaceful protesters, political and civil society leaders on human rights defenders.

  • The statement also called for charges against political opponents and activists to be dropped.

United Nations human rights experts have called on Uganda to rein in violence.

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