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A Ugandan court has allowed an arrest warrant to be issued for an international award-winning author who fled to Germany last month.
Kakwenza Rukirabashaija jumped bail after he was refused permission to leave the country to seek treatment for injuries he says he sustained while in detention.
The court had refused to give him his passport.
Rukirabashaija, who last year won the Pen Pinter Prize for an international writer of courage, was arrested in December.
The 33-year-old was charged with offensive communication for making unflattering remarks about President Yoweri Museveni and his son on Twitter. He denied the charges.
The writer is best known for The Greedy Barbarian, a satirical novel which describes high-level corruption in a fictional country, and Banana Republic: Where Writing is Treasonous, an account of the torture he was subjected to while in detention in 2020.
