In late December 2021, a series of tweets landed a Ugandan satirist, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, in detention. His lawyer says he was tortured there. His crime: referring to the son of the Ugandan president as “obese.” Ugandan activist, poet and academic Stella Nyanzi spent time in a Ugandan prison on similar charges, for similar kinds of insults. The World’s Carol Hills speaks to Nyanzi, who is now in exile in Germany.
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