{"id":406709,"date":"2011-04-29T08:14:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T08:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/29\/uganda-riots-over-besigye-arrest\/"},"modified":"2011-04-29T08:14:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T08:14:36","slug":"uganda-riots-over-besigye-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/29\/uganda-riots-over-besigye-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda riots over Besigye arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"41.2105263158\"><span><span>29 April 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>04:14 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Riots have broken out in Uganda&#8217;s capital, Kampala, over the treatment of opposition leader Kizza Besigye.<\/p>\n<p>People have been blocking roads and burning tyres, and police have been firing rubber bullets and tear gas.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Besigye sought medical treatment after being tear-gassed in his car and bundled roughly into a truck when he was arrested on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It was his fourth detention this month for his participation in a &#8220;walk-to-work&#8221; campaign over high prices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-africa-13237058\" title=\"Uganda riots over Besigye arrest\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uganda riots over Besigye arrest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 29 April 2011 Last updated at 04:14 ET Riots have broken out in Uganda&#8217;s capital, Kampala, over the treatment of opposition leader Kizza Besigye. People have been blocking roads and burning tyres, and police have been firing rubber bullets and tear gas. Mr Besigye sought medical treatment after being tear-gassed in his car and bundled roughly into a truck when he was arrested on Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Uganda riots over Besigye arrest - 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\/29\/uganda-riots-over-besigye-arrest\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Uganda riots over Besigye arrest - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"29 April 2011 Last updated at 04:14 ET Riots have broken out in Uganda&#039;s capital, Kampala, over the treatment of opposition leader Kizza Besigye. 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