{"id":422357,"date":"2011-05-11T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/11\/opposition-leader-stopped-from-taking-flight-back-to-uganda\/"},"modified":"2011-05-11T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T15:29:10","slug":"opposition-leader-stopped-from-taking-flight-back-to-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/opposition-leader-stopped-from-taking-flight-back-to-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition leader stopped from taking flight back to Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"87.8121546961\">\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<p>From <strong>Lillian Leposo<\/strong>, For CNN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"70.1904036558\">\n<p>Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye arrives at a Nairobi hospital on April 29 &#8212; he was stopped from boarding a return flight.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was in Kenya for treatment<\/li>\n<li>He has been arrested several times for protesting rising fuel prices<\/li>\n<li>The protests will continue in his absence, he says<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)<\/strong> &#8212; Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was barred from boarding a flight back home on Wednesday from the Kenyan capital, where he was undergoing treatment, an airline official said.<\/p>\n<p>Besigye flew to Nairobi for treatment two weeks ago after he was injured when police pulled him from a vehicle during protests over the rising cost of living in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition leader said he was traveling with his wife and aide, and had their boarding passes when a Kenya Airways manager told them that there were instructions not to allow them to board.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We refused to allow him to board because our intelligence advised us that it would not be safe to do so,&#8221; said Chris Karanja, a corporate affairs manager at Kenya Airways.<\/p>\n<p>Karanja did not offer any additional details.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear where the order came from or why the action was taken.<\/p>\n<p>Besigye said airline officials told him the plane would not be allowed to land In Entebbe, Uganda, with him onboard.<\/p>\n<p>His party officials said the Ugandan minister of internal security denied that the government issued the directive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an example of the ongoing frustrations, concerns and violations of rights by the Uganda government,&#8221; Besigye said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the right of every Ugandan to be able to return home at anytime. The government does not respect the rule of law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Besigye has been thrown in jail several times for spearheading &#8220;walk-to-work&#8221; protests, contending that the government is manipulating prices for fuel and commodities.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in the east African nation had warned protesters that the gatherings are unlawful and participants will be prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being held in Kenya, protests will proceed, according to Besigye.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The walk-to-pray scheduled for tomorrow would still go on even if I&#8217;m not in the country. It&#8217;s not dependent on me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There are Ugandans and activists in the country who want to advance their rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Ugandan government spokesman did not answer calls for comment.<\/p>\n<p>President Yoweri Museveni is scheduled to be sworn in for a new term following his re-election in February.<\/p>\n<p>Besigye, who heads the Forum for Democratic Change party, was the leading opposition candidate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Taken from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/edition_africa\/~3\/M-u_XHrJhJ8\/index.html\" title=\"Opposition leader stopped from taking flight back to Uganda\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Opposition leader stopped from taking flight back to Uganda<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> From Lillian Leposo , For CNN Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye arrives at a Nairobi hospital on April 29 &#8212; he was stopped from boarding a return flight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":399948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-422357","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 - 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