Bobi Wine, Uganda’s opposition leader, has said he was born free and now he was free from the security forces humiliating him, his wife and domestic staff while placed under house arrest.

Wine disclosed his freedom on Tuesday days after he had been under house arrest since a disputed January 14 election which he lost to the long-serving President Yoweri Museveni.

Wine said “I was born free and I am free. Only that I am everywhere in chains.

“As you saw, while the court ordered the police to vacate our premises, you still have police and military helicopters, over us.

“General Museveni is reading from the same script as all dictators.”

“It has been an experience of isolation, of torture, of humiliation, having our compound turned into a military garrison,”

“Having our employees traumatized, beaten, an experience of hunger.

“We were not allowed to access our garden. But again, it has been a reminder that we can overcome any kind of stress,” he added.

The military men and police left the 38-year old pop star’s compound, located in a leafy northern suburb of the capital Kampala, in compliance with a court order and pressure from the U.S. and other Western countries.

Wine alleged that soldiers touched his wife’s breasts when she sought food in the garden, and his gardener was beaten.

He said food ran out, and there was no milk for an 18-month-old niece trapped with them.

Contrarily, the government said security forces were there for Wine’s own protection, while police said food had been delivered by a motorcycle courier each day.

The army also denied the claim that his wife had been assaulted, but has not responded to the allegation about the gardener.