ah, what people have to say matters to us. i am. that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend or on d w. this is, these are be news, africa coming up on the show. will there be accountability for torture in uganda, uganda and official stand accused of arbitrary arrest and torture rights groups. the u. s. and the e. you are demanding due process and rule of law. we had testimony from uganda and saturate to a ledges. he was brutally beaten and says the orders came from the very top. the did son, most guy, no gulf awarded for my race gun will. ready presided over my butcher. yes.

and i've met him 3 times leading interrogation. yes, so he's go unwise in charge of my and is a long way from gibbon to germany. we meet the self sudanese filmmaker whose work is the 1st film from her country to make it to the berlin film festival. a film about her politician, parents, call me one man. one. no, i'm still in love with the a new spirit is that on me all the class despite sanctions being imposed artists in marley stand firm to show off that colorful culture at the so go on to festival and it's women who came out in force this is a part of this goddess, 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 won south african texas.

ah, hello, then i'm really mohammed is good to have you with us rights groups and the international community are raising alarm over the human rights situation in uganda, raising attention to what they call occurring, credible accounts of arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances and torture in the east african country there are blaming the government of presents you are in was 70, has been in power since 1986. now there's outraged off to rights at ca. quinn's rou, kara betia alleged. he was tortured for weeks while in detention after being arrested in december and magistrate ordered his release last month. he has since published images of his back on social media, showing clear signs of alleged torture. well cut care care by side 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 richard boucher fled, i spoke to him in kampala and i 1st asked him to describe what happened to him when he was detained past year. now, on the 28th december, i was home. military men broke into the buyer, ended arrested me without it took me to special forces command the military, the army that is responsible for the president for security and his immediate

relatives. and i was detained there for 14 days, and during the detention the tortured me too, or much did grevious damage to my skin. my dish and i was later smuggled into court and sent to prison, which is actually a miscarriage of justice as our lawyer elucidate. because when a person of human rights, when the magistrate judge, because they didn't over 60, but he cannot send him to the host into the prison instead he sent him. ready to the hospital, but the magistrate decided in prison and even when there was baled

when i was they, they received me from the prison and took me again to the minute. that is because when do you have any suspicions about who may have ordered these acts? of course it is the sudden and most i never go ordered for my arrest who. ready presided over my butcher yet and met him 3 times during the interrogation. yes. so you go and was in charge of my butcher. 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. they beat me, they hit my encore using button bright. took me to the interrogation center,

that detention center. they used people put them as creeps. oh, do you got a solution over my body? that is, the mid quarter report stays the heat, my buck all my days. full of guys. yeah. so they really hit me buds to the extent that they fell out again because justin is up the lake 6. how was was the president, john did 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 begged not to write about my touch again because he knows that even after his arrest i am going to write an

alarm. so he takes me when i was victim. when i was hidden up from prison, pete was handled portion he made to me again and told me not the right. let me ask you a 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 trick metals or 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. they did everything and i was referred to you on monday,

but my call was made was posted into one of the condition for vale yesterday, but one the put in an application to get my bus for over today. on monday, the magistrate is answered and refused to give me both my passport. so i think you want to try to see what you did and yeah, they do them. that is what they want. we don't want to go and get medical treatment . they are sending need to drop the uganda, which they are not the money. my so i that is why i am determined to speak again. it's my to tell you the $1.00. again, the maurice been on the get 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 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 late but be will not leave forever. you will not leave 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 war, missouri, and must be the saw problem. we have other countries here, mom is a son now with us on once he thinks that the presidency is

a kind overhead. it doesn't mean he was in his father, barbara, 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 sir akira basha 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 or pando, for now the government has no evidence and the government cannot operate on here. see, because 1st weeks can admit anything. while seen that before, somebody could have had pre existing condition. what we can say is that torture is illegal according to request fission. according to him, i see commission act. according to the and torture law. you're going to have 1st of all, to create phase government, antiquated, phase, government officials, including defrauded. the government sees no problem. i say. because we are in a democracy in a democracy with the free speech for intellectual discourse. giving divergence

point of view, as long as you don't put it up to the individual, to choose to use the language over nick, what am or insulting? 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 lesson has listed that it is understandable? in this case of policemen? i was this person and a good job. i bowed. even when it is not official policy, which is understandable in i would appreciate the anger of that policeman, the anger. oh good 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 on my analyst and 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 learned how to cook clean, take care of children. so that sunday we'd make good rives and mothers. you think 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 saddam. well 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 the dawn to screen at the berlin international film festival . a coil de ma b o. is the daughter, a 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, yon dang 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 matter what. all the film is produced in collaboration with a 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. okay. oh no, dear. okay, i'm doing that on minute on why you chose not to to me, mary. who me it's a question that i wouldn't think to ask, but someone else might. moon, who m a c o m a we offer lower matter matter what? some people get their nose up to them, but not upgrade, not up to me. will new one man only will for mission. ok. you mr. government is long overdue. it is crucial. the new government works over salsa during the work real quick. oh oh

wow. wow. my advisor didn't with godaddy. my, oh, i mean you are all waiting for things to get better for stronger peace and civility. but waiting for me at my mother's house is worlds apart from waiting elsewhere in the capital and beyond. for more in this and joined by a cool deer. ma, vio, self sudanese filmmaker, based in nairobi. welcome to d. 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. there's 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 in the process of having a, having really great collaborators, filmmaking being a 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, 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 so i, i used to speak danco 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 a something that i feel very guilty about and something that i'm reminded about often because we're a very pride full about our language as, 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 put in front of me and to embrace them so i was trying to buy 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 low with the a new spirit is that on me all that i i don't, i don't good this bible saying that until they do us. but so your father is so

clearly very present for your mother and both of them are towering figures in sudanese and also salsa. 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 he alone was, or oh, was it to, to divide the country or perhaps that might be received as controversial. but i think that doesn't mean that 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 military coup 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 sized or the w news. africa goes to the city of say, go in, molly. i 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 kill was borders meant several african stars couldn't make it. in of a t b,

young female artist did. almost half of the musicians shut off for the main concert were female. marian connie, a rising star of the new generation, paid tribute to molly and women with her song shima muscle. oh, that until marianna was in the miley and tradition wasting a lot about women in all communities. we know the value of is a dance and performer from gao in northern marley. her vibrant performance. the spirit of water is dedicated to the deity of the nysha river. i suffer from will exist as a part of this god is in every woman. the power of women is innate to that from every woman has the power to change the world and to do with it. what ever she one's self applicant, that's it. well that's how so be sure to take out the other stories on d. w dot com, forward slash africa. we're also on facebook and twitter. now we leave you with

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