ah, what secrets lie behind these walls? discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. d w world heritage is 360. get out now. this is, these are the news apricots coming up on the show. will there be accountability for torture? in uganda, uganda, an official stand, the keys of arbitrary arrest and torture rights groups. the u. s. and the e. u. i demanding due process and rule of law. we had testimony from uganda and saturate to alleges he was brutally beaten and says, the orders came from the very top. the didn't son most guy know color in order for my arrest. who presided over my butcher?

yes, i met him 3 times the interrogation. yes. so, you know, and was in charge of my and is a long way from gibbon to germany. we meet the salsa denise bill maker, whose work is the 1st film from her country to make it to the berlin film festival . a film about her politician parents. for me, one man, one. no, i'm still in love with your father. a new spirit is at all and me all the class despite sanctions being imposed artists in marley's stand firm to show off a colorful culture at the so go on to festival and the to women who came out in force this is a part of this goddess and every woman, the power of women is innate from every woman has the power to change the world and to do with it. what ever she one self applicant, that's it. ah,

with hello, then i'm really bahamas is good to have you with us, writes groups and the international community are raising alarm over the human rights situation in uganda, raising attention to what they call recurring credible accounts of arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances and torture in the east african country. there are blaming the government of present you. erin was 70, has been in power since 1986. now there's outraged after rights at queensboro, kara betia alleged. he was tortured for weeks while in detention. after being arrested in december, a magistrate ordered his release last month. he has since published images of his back on social media, showing clear signs of alleged torture. wow care care by shy has

now fled. uganda. human rights watch is demanding that uganda should drop all charges against him and investigate his allegations. a satirist most recent book is banana republic where writing is treasonous. and then he is also the author of the 2020 satirical novel which is the greedy barbarian which describes high level corruption in a fictional country. now before raquira bush, i fled, i spoke to him in kampala and i 1st asked him to describe what happened to him when he was detained last year. now on the 28th december, i was military men broke into it and via into arrested me without it took me to special forces command the military, the amenities are exclusive for the president, for security and his immediate relatives and i was detained there for

14 days and during the detention, they tortured me too much today he did grevious damage to my skin medical dish and i was laid smuggled into court and sent to prison, which is actually a miscarriage of justice as our lawyer elucidate. because when a bunch of human rates, when the magistrate judge b, they didn't go by the mother that he cannot send him to the host into the prison. he sends him to the hospital, but the magistrate said it was in the prison. and even when they was bailed,

when i was they, they received me from the prison and took me again to the minute that it detention . do you have any suspicions about who may have ordered these acts? of course it is. the sun was ordered for my arrest and who. ready presided over my butcher yet and i met him 3 times during the interrogation. yes. so you go on was in charge of my when you mentioned the lead torture, can you give us a little bit more detail about what happened to you? i received punches in the stomach when they were arresting me. the bit to me the hit my cause using button brad. ready took me to the interrogation center,

that detention center. they used. people put, i must weep. oh, do you got a solution over my body? that is the mid quarter report stays my buck over my body. full of guys. yeah. so they really hit me, buds 2 legs in that they fell out again. was just 6 how i was was the president john, the president during this torture? yes he was you physically saw him there in the same room? yes, i saw him. i met him. he asked me to give me an offer on each of my job in form of a job and some other material benefits. i refused. he beg, in order to write about michael again, because he knows that even after this harris they,

i'm going to write another. so he gave me when i was victim, when i was hidden up from prison, people was handled portion. he made to me again and told me not right. let me ask you about the few bill. warren's lead to the press. yet you've decided to give interviews to the media any way before your trial concludes in march. are you worried that speaking out could lead to you being arrested again? do you fear for your life? lay no way. they know a state they want to arrest the new they will come back on the neighborhood and have you been able to receive treadmills after you are brutally beaten? we saw some pictures that you had published on social media with the bruises on your back. not received any medical attention. i went to the hospital, they did notice they did everything and i was referred to you on monday,

but my question was, my passport was posted into one of the condition for bale yesterday, but one would be in an application to get my bus over to you on monday, the magistrate is there in the bus, my passport, so i think you want to try to you. i did and yeah that to them, that is what the 1111 to get medical treatment. they are sending need to drop the uganda replaced in the monday my one before. so i that is why i am determined to speak again. it's my the $1.00. again, the maurice been on the 1st time you were arrested, entertained this also happened back in 2020, where you describe the situation as in you in humane and degrading. where does this

leave the future of satire and freedom of expression in uganda? i believe that the president is in that house actually legitimate today you will not leave forever. so even if we actually touched the wrong, but on the day it was, it was if i was talking this on record. so i said it be to him. if the things that you were out believe, but he will not leave forever, that he will not live to keep frustrating. you know, writing will never going forward. now, what do you think needs to be done to ensure that there is more accountability? suppose the president has to warm soon must be the saw problem. we have our country here. mom is

a son now with us on what he thinks that the presidency a kind overhead it doesn't mean he was in here. it is 5 hours above. so we have to send them off. all of them cochran's are raquira, masha ugandan ryan to thank you very much for your testimony and speaking to teach of the news africa. thank you so much forcing the raquira by shy alleges torture and attempted bribery by general kiner gaba. the satirist had in the past referred to the garden, president's son as pig headed and plump for his part. the general denies any claims of torture and says he has never met the writer on twitter, he wrote, i don't know who this young boy is whom they say was beaten. i never heard of him. i've never met him or talked to him. i did have a news africa also reached out to the uganda authorities about these allegations of

arrest and torture. he is part of the response from the government spokesperson, a foreigner, a pando, poor. now the government has an evidence and the government cannot operate on here . see, because suspects can admit anything. well, similar to before, somebody could have had pre existing condition. what we can say is that torture is illegal according to get close to soon. according to him i see commission act. according to the and torture law. your guidance, you have way possible to crick say, government, antiquated, phase, government officials, including the president the government sees no problem. i say, because we are in a democracy. we are in a democracy with

a free speech free intellectual discourse. the giving david point of view, as long as we don't put it up to the individual to choose to use the language of a nickel or a celtic. how about a policeman? how about a soldier who have it sim indicated that you know the low? he may be carried away by emotion, by anger. he has pursued it, criminal suspected criminal. how do you think this person has listed that it is understandable? if this kind of policeman i was this person and go to the board even when it is not official policy, which is understandable. yeah, i would appreciate the anger over that. policeman. the anger of that surgery

you're watching the w news. apricots still to come. we take a look at this, they go ot festival on the banks of the niger river in molly, where women are dominating the stage. oh, my analyst in the maryan tradition, wasting a lot about women in all communities. we know the value of women and the place in society like my father, she grew up poor with few opportunities. i recognized her ambition because i have some myself. she encouraged it, she also insisted that my sister's and i learn how to cook clean, take care of children. so that sunday we'd make good rives and mothers. there never seemed to be a contradiction between these things for her. for me,

i'm struggling to reconcile. being ambitious, being a woman, and being from south sudan, poignant images there from south sedan. we bring you a premier on d, w and use africa. that was a clip from no simple way home. it's a 1st film from south saddam to screen at the berlin international film festival. a coil de mar b. o. is the daughter of former rebel fighter john garen. a leading figure in south to dawn. he seen by many as the father of the nation. who like millions, died in vain in years of war. her mother, rebecca nan dank demario, is no less a giant known as the mother of south to dawn. she is now one of the countries vice president for the way mary murdered. while the film is produced in collaboration with the d. w academy, and the german ministry of economic cooperation and development and the organization steps. so what does it mean to return home from exile when you are the

child of parents like these? that's one of the questions i asked. that was austin the film. take a look. okay. i found in the wrong minute on why you chose not to to re mary. school. me. it's a question that i wouldn't thing to ask, but someone else might. moon, who m as in lower, we offer lower mary murder. what? don't people get those up to them but not a good note out to me? will new one man. only the whole mission unit to government is long overdue. it is crucial that new government works only that will solve for darren emerge real quick. whoa, whoa,

whoa. whoa. whoa. oh my pleasure. didn't with godaddy got a la la ray. oh, we're all waiting for things to get better for stronger peace and civility. but waiting for me at my mother's house, his worlds apart from waiting elsewhere in the capital and beyond. for more in this, i'm joined by a coil there might be a self sudanese filmmaker based in nairobi. welcome to v w. news africa. i thank you. thanks for having me. now your film is deeply personal for you and your family, but the personal is also political. and as

a scene where you reflect that you thought that you were making a film about your mother and also about the nation. could you tell us more about what exactly is this film about? so i come from a political family and i was hoping that in the process of making this film, we could think about what it means to reconcile a country and family. the political and personal, and it's been that the film making as a, as a mediating element has, has helped, i think, in, in, in, guiding us and thinking about what it means to reconcile the personal and the political. when i come from such a political family and this is the 1st film from south to dawn, that's been screamed at the brother nelly. do you think you achieve what you're hoping for? we're very excited about it and such

a wonderful festival and something that my mother said when we got the news and after she washed the phone. so this is all very recent is that it's putting south sedan on the map in a new way. a lot of the people that i've spoken to who recently talk about how they've they're there, what they've heard of south sedan tends to be depressing and, and disaster. and this is a part of our story, but it's not the whole story. so i think we're very excited that we can bring south sedan onto the world stage in a different way. and at the same time, the title of the film is no simple way home and it covers your families fight into exile and then your return. where did that complex road take you

on a journey the journey in exile or the journey home? well, i guess the journey home to finding yourself, right? mm hm. so it challenged me a lot. i, i think i had, i wanted easy resolutions. i wanted to figure out quickly what it meant to call south sedan home and in the process of. b having her, having really great collaborators, filmmaking being of very collaborative art form, meant that any time i tried to come to some kind of an easy resolution, for example, i said home is where my mother is at one point. and one of our collaborators was like, how true is that really? and initially i was taken back a little bit, but it forced me to think deeper about what does home really mean to me and, and by the end of it i thought is home,

perhaps not somewhere you would want to be able to rest. and i think i'm still, i'm still thinking about where that place is. i think generally people think about what whole means to them for their whole lives. and there's a part of the film where you visited your father's ancestral homeland. and yet his community were very surprised that you didn't speak thinker. how did that feel? that i so i, i used to speak to go and i was very young and apparently i spoke it very well and i forgot it. so our, my whole life, it's been, it's been something that i feel very guilty about and something that i'm reminded about often because we were very pride full about our language as a, as think of people and our traditions and our culture. so we're constant,

i'm constantly reminded that this is a thing that i lack, the ability to speak my own language. so i wasn't surprised. but in that moment, and by the time we were filming that we had been doing quite some filming i, i, i tried my best to communicate to understand where she was coming from, to accept the challenges that she, she, she put in front of me and to embrace them. so i was trying to by then i was trying to approach it differently. you know, like as a teenager, i think i would have been maybe i might have been a little bit more upset by the challenge. but now i, i understand where it comes from and i appreciate it. let's take a quick look at the scene from the film where your mother talks about never wanting to re marry. will new one man only know

i'm a silly love with the new spirit is on me all the time. i don't, i don't good this bible saying that until death do us. but so your father is still clearly very present for your mother. and both of them are towering figures in sudanese and also south of denise politics. and they both clearly had a vision for the country. do you think that can be achieved? i think that it's changed and things have changed so much. the, the vision of the, as the alarm was r. o wasn't to, to divide the country. or perhaps that might be received as controversial. but i think that doesn't mean that a good things cannot come. it just means that the vision made need to be revised, and i think it can be and what's next for you? politics or full making?

no politics of filmmaking. please. lots of film. king. i call them avo. salsa. denise filmmaker in nairobi. thank you very much for speaking to d. w. news. africa. thank you to ah, well, they used to call it the african woodstock. tens of thousands gathered near the niger river in miley, but last december, a co us ordered the country's borders to close after a double miller cheek, who organizes had to make a tough choice. to keep 18th edition or postpone where molly's biggest stars once took to the stage. growing insecurity in recent years has now forced the say go our festival to down size. lead up the news africa goes to the city as they go in money . a such a gun can sent us this report. ah, the vibe is no less vibrant. organizers were determined to show the world how

resilient maryan culture is. even though embargoes and chill was borders meant several african stars could make it. innovative, young female artist did almost half of the musicians shut off for the main concert were female. marianne connie, a rising star, the new generation pay tribute to molly and women with her song, sabrina muscle. oh that. and so my and i was in the maryan tradition, we sing lot about women in all communities. we know the value of women and their place in society. psycho visions became art lovers over night. 50 young artists from west africa took part in this uncle. ot competition independence don't. young was one of the prize winners. her sculptors tackles breast cancer where they're korea back. you seem all there's something missing from the work. so i'm emphasizing that with breast cancer. it's not just the breasts that i've removed,

but really a part of a personal phone. it destroys the person that is at the tape, measures evoke time passing. therefore i will get a thought be better. micah is a dance and performer from gao in northern marley. her vibrant performance, the spirit of water is dedicated to the beauty of the nysha river. i shall some exist, it is a part of this goddess and every woman is the power of women is innate from every woman has the power to change the world and to do with it. what ever she once again, that's it. well that thou, so be sure to take her the other stories on d. w dot com, forward slash africa were also on facebook and twitter. now we leave you with pictures of this a go our festival in molly i read. mohammed, thanks for watching bye. for now. ah

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