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."
According to Ssentamu, after he regained consciousness, two soldiers who came to see him "were visibly pleased to see that I was still alive. They came close to me. One of them apologised in tears about what had happened."
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