The Makindye chief Magistrate Court has ordered security operatives to produce detained novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija in Court to be officially charged or unconditional release from detention.
Kakwenza’s lawyers led by Eron Kiiza filed an application for his immediate unconditional release as their client has spent a week in incommunicado, an act which is against the 48-hour rule of the constitution.
According to Kiiza, their client was supposed to be produced in court today but he has not yet been produced before Buganda road court, where his case file of offensive communication was taken for plea taking.
He adds that the police is fearing to produce his client in court because he has been tortured and is currently urinating and vomiting blood.
Irene Nambatya, the Makindye grade one magistrate has ordered that Kakwenza should be released unconditionally.
“It is hereby ordered that the applicant be unconditionally released from police custody. Every police officer should comply with the above order and no order as to costs,” Nambatya ordered.
Kakwenza was arrested at his home in Kisasi, a Kampala suburb, last Tuesday. He is accused of insulting President Yoweri Museveni and First son Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba on Twitter.
End-last year, Kakwenza won a prestigious prize for courageous writing.