{"id":404405,"date":"2011-04-28T10:37:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T10:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/28\/police-arrest-opposition-leader-besigye-again\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T10:37:38","slug":"police-arrest-opposition-leader-besigye-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/police-arrest-opposition-leader-besigye-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Opposition Leader Besigye Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"37.6462952948\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/7305b8cerfi-logo-en.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>28 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Ugandan police arrested opposition leader Kizza Besigye on Thursday for the fourth time this month. Before being detained Besigye told RFI that police were preventing him taking pary in ongoing &#8220;walk to work&#8221; demonstrations to protest against rising food and fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition leader had only just been released from a week in custody, after being granted bail on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to RFI earlier on Thursday, he said, &#8220;I left home as usual today, but policemen were on my property. They said I was not allowed onto the road and I was not allowed to walk to my workplace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then left his house by car, and drove from his home on the outskirts of Kampala to the city centre, where he intended to begin his walk to work from another location.<\/p>\n<p>A crowd of several hundred supporters formed around Besigy&#8217;s vehicle when he claimed he was prevented by the police from driving to the bank.<\/p>\n<p>Plain-clothes police officers smashed his car windows with a hammer and sprayed him with tear gas, forcing the opposition leader and his bodyguards out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Besigye was then bundled into the back of a pick-up truck by policemen and at least three other members of his entourage were also driven away.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd then started throwing stones at the police who responded with tear gas, eventually dispersing the demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to media reports that President Yoweri Museveni was prepared to meet him next week, Besigye told RFI, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t been contacted by the president. But what is needed if they want to talk to us is a national dialogue. Not discussions between Museveni and Besigye.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a national crisis that goes beyond party politics. We need a dialogue that puts on the table the underlying causes of this national crisis that is making the government respond in this strange and riotous way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\/20110428-uganda-police-arrest-opposition-leader-besigye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read or Listen to this story on the RFI website<\/a><\/strong><\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201104280514.html\" title=\"Police Arrest Opposition Leader Besigye Again\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Police Arrest Opposition Leader Besigye Again<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 28 April 2011 Ugandan police arrested opposition leader Kizza Besigye on Thursday for the fourth time this month. Before being detained Besigye told RFI that police were preventing him taking pary in ongoing &#8220;walk to work&#8221; demonstrations to protest against rising food and fuel prices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":404406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-404405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police Arrest Opposition Leader Besigye Again - 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\/2011\/04\/28\/police-arrest-opposition-leader-besigye-again\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Police Arrest Opposition Leader Besigye Again - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"28 April 2011 Ugandan police arrested opposition leader Kizza Besigye on Thursday for the fourth time this month. 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