- We were attacked.

Police and military fired sharp shots and tear gas.

My whole team and myself were pepper sprayed.

I was dragged out of my car, arrested and taken to a notorious torture center, says Bobi Wine.

Ugandan pop star and opposition politician Bobi Wine talks about how it went when he was arrested during the campaign meeting he held on Wednesday before the country's presidential election in January.

Wine was released two days later.

Police have justified the arrest by saying that the meeting violated Uganda's covid restrictions.

- At the same time, President Museveni travels around the country and pays lots of people to come to his election meetings.

So the covid laws only seem to apply to the opposition, says Bobi Wine.

"Military and police shoot civilians"

The incident has led to the worst unrest in the capital Kampala in a decade.

There are currently reports of at least 45 dead and hundreds injured and arrested, according to the BBC.

This weekend, Uganda's security minister went out and said that "the police have the right to shoot to kill if you act too violently".

The police themselves have reported that 11 police officers have been injured.

- The military and police walk around in civilian clothes and shoot unarmed civilians.

All dictators do this when they are about to fall.

This happened in Libya when Gaddafi was falling, in Sudan when al-Bashir was falling and in Zimbabwe when Mugabe was falling, says Bobi Wine.

Continues his campaign

In recent years, the artist Bobi Wine has President Yoweri Museveni's most talked about and popular challenger, not least among young Ugandans.

The position has led to recurring sabotage and arrests from the regime, which the Foreign Policy Institute describes as increasingly authoritarian.

Despite this, Wine is determined to continue its campaign already on Monday.

- I do not know what will happen, but I know that in the sense of the law I am a presidential candidate who has the right to run my campaign.

We are not violent, but this is our only legal opportunity to free ourselves from a dictatorial regime.

Wants the outside world to act

He also hopes that the outside world will pay attention to what is happening in Uganda.

A development he describes as a mass murder of his own population.

- We call on world leaders to raise their voices and condemn the massacre of innocent people in Uganda.

They are arrested, tortured and killed.

This must end.