Jubilant Arsenal fans arrested in Uganda after win

At slightest 8 Arsenal fans person been arrested successful the Ugandan metropolis of Jinja aft celebrating the club's triumph against Manchester United successful the English Premier League.

The fans were wearing the club's reddish jersey and carrying a symbolic trophy.

Police said they didn't person a licence to clasp the procession which is simply a nationalist bid offence.

Arsenal scored a melodramatic last-minute extremity to triumph 3-2 successful Sunday's lucifer against a fierce rival.

The effect gave the Gunners a five-point cushion astatine the apical of the table, giving anticipation to fans astir the satellite that the nine could extremity its 19-year hold to triumph the English Premier League.

The Arsenal fans were travelling successful a convoy of 5 vehicles connected Monday greeting erstwhile they were intercepted by police. One of them was carrying a trophy they had bought astatine a section store.

"I don't cognize what we person done but we were simply celebrating our triumph implicit rivals Manchester United," Arsenal instrumentality Baker Kasule is quoted arsenic saying by the section Daily Monitor quality site.

James Mubi, the determination constabulary brag and a self-declared Arsenal fan, told the BBC helium had not reviewed the fans' charges but wondered wherefore they were celebrating erstwhile lone fractional of the matches successful the play had been played.

"What would hap if an altercation with rival fans broke out? They did not pass constabulary to supply information for their procession," Mr Mubi said, dismissing the proposition that the apprehension was linked to the predominant apprehension of members of an absorption enactment who besides deterioration red.

Rights groups accidental the Public Order Management Act has fixed constabulary discretionary powers that person been utilized to stifle citizens' rights.

Agather Atuhaire, a lawyer and rights activist, told the BBC that Uganda's constabulary proceed "to beryllium high-handed adjacent aft the Constitutional Court nullified each the draconian provisions that gave them unfettered powers to restrict the constitutionally guaranteed state of relation and assembly".

Arsenal and Manchester United bask immense enactment successful Uganda, and crossed Africa, and erstwhile they play makeshift video halls successful Uganda are ever packed to the rafters.