{"id":27137,"date":"2011-09-22T12:36:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T11:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27137"},"modified":"2011-09-22T14:49:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:49:28","slug":"uganda-writer-arrested-after-publishing-book-critical-of-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27137","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Writer arrested after publishing book critical of president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index: Uganda\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Uganda\" target=\"_blank\">Ugandan<\/a> writer Vincent Nzaramba was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/uganda\/2011\/09\/21\/nzaramba_arrested\/\">arrested<\/a> from his home on 17 September, after penning a book critical of President Yoweri Museveni. According to eyewitnesses, two police vehicles were waiting at Nzaramba&#8217;s home, and after searching his home for two hours and confiscating 106 copies of the controversial book, he was taken to the Rapid Response Unit (RRU) headquarters.\u00a0Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala, programme coordinator for Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda), <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201109220657.html\">said<\/a> that Nzaramba is being &#8220;illegally detained&#8221; by police forces, because he has refused to retract his calls for the removal of the Ugandan president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandan writer Vincent Nzaramba was arrested from his home on 17 September, after penning a book critical of President Yoweri Museveni. According to eyewitnesses, two police vehicles were waiting at Nzaramba&#8217;s home, and after searching his home for two hours and confiscating 106 copies of the controversial book, he was taken to the Rapid Response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[3836,727,7378,3835],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27142,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27137\/revisions\/27142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}