{"id":17894,"date":"2024-11-20T09:02:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T09:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17894"},"modified":"2024-11-20T09:02:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T09:02:28","slug":"ugandan-opposition-figure-faces-military-court-after-kenya-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17894","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan opposition figure faces military court after Kenya detention"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The wife of Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye says he has been kidnapped in neighbouring Kenya and is now being held in a military jail back home.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, Winnie Byanyima wrote that her husband had been seized in Kenya’s capital Nairobi last Saturday during a book launch event.<\/p>\n

“I am now reliably informed that he is in a military jail in Kampala,” she said, demanding that the government of Uganda release her husband.<\/p>\n

Army spokesperson Felix Kulayigye told the Uganda Radio Network agency that he would be arraigned at a court later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He did not expressly state if the military was holding him.<\/p>\n

BBC News has asked the Ugandan government for comment.<\/p>\n

Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper reported that senior members of his Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party had gathered at Makindye military court in Kampala, expecting him to appear there.<\/p>\n

Besigye, 68, led the FDC, contesting and losing four presidential elections against incumbent Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power since 1986.<\/p>\n

“We his family and his lawyers demand to see him,” his wife wrote on X. <\/p>\n

“He is not a soldier. Why is he being held in a military jail?”<\/p>\n

Ms Byanyima is a human rights advocate and executive director of Unaids, the joint UN programme set up to eradicate Aids.<\/p>\n

Besigye used to be Museveni’s personal doctor but went on to become an opposition leader and has referred to the leader of the east African country as a “dictator”.<\/p>\n

He has alleged that previous presidential elections were rigged – a claim denied by the government. <\/p>\n

The opposition figure has been arrested on numerous occasions in the past.<\/p>\n

On one occasion he was shot in the hand, on another he suffered eye injuries after being doused in pepper spray.<\/p>\n

The authorities have accused him of provoking them, and he has been charged with inciting violence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: <\/em> www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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