{"id":9550,"date":"2023-01-25T06:21:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T06:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/"},"modified":"2023-01-25T06:21:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T06:21:56","slug":"detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Detained Arsenal fans freed in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Arsenal-1-565x424-Copy-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Arsenal-1-565x424 (Copy)\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Some eight Arsenal fans who were arrested in the Ugandan city of Jinja after celebrating the club\u2019s win against Manchester United in the English Premier League have been released.<\/p>\n<p>They were wearing the club\u2019s red jersey and carrying a symbolic trophy\u00a0during their arrest on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they didn\u2019t have a permit to hold the procession which is a public order offence.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>But on Tuesday a joint security team agreed to free them with a caution, said James Mubi, the regional police spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>One of the fans told journalists that they would \u201cseek for permission [to celebrate] if Arsenal wins the premier league\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shall have the celebrations in Bugembe stadium,\u201d the self-proclaimed ambassador of Arsenal in Uganda added.<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesman claimed the fans did not know the basics about the club \u2013 that they didn\u2019t know which year Arsenal had their unbeaten run and had named a former Ugandan goalkeeper as an Arsenal player.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Police in Jinja have released Arsenal fans who were arrested on Monday after 24 hours of detention<br \/>The Fans were accused of carrying an illegal procession on different streets of Jinja<br \/>Kiira region <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliceUg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PoliceUg<\/a> spokesperson James Mubi says Police leadership agreed to release them <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OtZuivJqbo\">pic.twitter.com\/OtZuivJqbo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hakim Kanyere (@HakimKanyere) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HakimKanyere\/status\/1617888478410473474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Arsenal<\/a>\u2069 fans we arrested even had no basics about the club. \u2013 James Mubi, Kiira regional \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliceUg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PoliceUg<\/a>\u2069 spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBSportUpdates?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBSportUpdates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3vswH1QRw6\">pic.twitter.com\/3vswH1QRw6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBS Sport (@NBSportUg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBSportUg\/status\/1617853191462215681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"68l6fYE2ado\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Utility tariff increase poses threats to employment, business survi - AGI (24-1-23)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/68l6fYE2ado?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n));\/**\/<\/script><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some eight Arsenal fans who were arrested in the Ugandan city of Jinja after celebrating the club\u2019s win against Manchester United in the English Premier League have been released. They were wearing the club\u2019s red jersey and carrying a symbolic trophy\u00a0during their arrest on Monday. Police said they didn\u2019t have a permit to hold the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Detained Arsenal fans freed in Uganda - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Detained Arsenal fans freed in Uganda - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some eight Arsenal fans who were arrested in the Ugandan city of Jinja after celebrating the club\u2019s win against Manchester United in the English Premier League have been released. They were wearing the club\u2019s red jersey and carrying a symbolic trophy\u00a0during their arrest on Monday. Police said they didn\u2019t have a permit to hold the [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-25T06:21:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Arsenal-1-565x424-Copy-696x522-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"522\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/\",\"name\":\"Detained Arsenal fans freed in Uganda - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Arsenal-1-565x424-Copy-696x522-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-25T06:21:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-25T06:21:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Arsenal-1-565x424-Copy-696x522-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Arsenal-1-565x424-Copy-696x522-1.jpg\",\"width\":696,\"height\":522},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Detained Arsenal fans freed in Uganda\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74\",\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ghana News\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/author\/ghanamma\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Detained Arsenal fans freed in Uganda - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Detained Arsenal fans freed in Uganda - Ghanamma.com","og_description":"Some eight Arsenal fans who were arrested in the Ugandan city of Jinja after celebrating the club\u2019s win against Manchester United in the English Premier League have been released. They were wearing the club\u2019s red jersey and carrying a symbolic trophy\u00a0during their arrest on Monday. Police said they didn\u2019t have a permit to hold the [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/","og_site_name":"Ghanamma.com","article_published_time":"2023-01-25T06:21:56+00:00","og_image":[{"width":696,"height":522,"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Arsenal-1-565x424-Copy-696x522-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ghana News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ghana News","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/","name":"Detained Arsenal fans freed in Uganda - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Arsenal-1-565x424-Copy-696x522-1.jpg","datePublished":"2023-01-25T06:21:56+00:00","dateModified":"2023-01-25T06:21:56+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Arsenal-1-565x424-Copy-696x522-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Arsenal-1-565x424-Copy-696x522-1.jpg","width":696,"height":522},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/25\/detained-arsenal-fans-freed-in-uganda\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Detained Arsenal fans freed in Uganda"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74","name":"Ghana News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ghana News"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/author\/ghanamma\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}