{"id":253292,"date":"2024-11-20T11:46:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T11:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/20\/ugandan-opposition-politician-kidnapped-in-kenya-wife-says\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T11:46:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T11:46:46","slug":"ugandan-opposition-politician-kidnapped-in-kenya-wife-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/20\/ugandan-opposition-politician-kidnapped-in-kenya-wife-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan opposition politician kidnapped in Kenya, wife says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/935\/93560730.295.jpg\" alt=\"Veteran Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye stands in the dock at the courtroom\" title=\"Veteran Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye stands in the dock at the courtroom\" width=\"295\" height=\"162\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Veteran Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye stands in the dock at the courtroom<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">A prominent Ugandan opposition politician was kidnapped during a book launch in Kenya over the weekend, transferred to Uganda and is being held at a military jail in Kampala, his wife said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kizza Besigye has run against Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in four elections and lost each time, although he has rejected the results, alleging fraud and voter intimidation. He has been arrested dozens of times before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI request the (government) of Uganda to release my husband Dr Kizza Besigye from where he is being held immediately,\u201d said his wife Winnie Byanyima.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Ugandan military could not be immediately reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs police, we don\u2019t have him, so we can\u2019t make any comment,\u201d Ugandan police spokesman Kituuma Rusoke told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Kenya\u2019s national police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Kenyan authorities detained 36 members of Besigye\u2019s Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party, one of Uganda\u2019s main opposition groups, and deported them to Uganda where they were charged with terrorism-related offenses.<\/p>\n<p>Besigye, who was Museveni\u2019s physician during the guerrilla war but later became an outspoken critic, was kidnapped on Saturday during the launch of a book by veteran Kenyan opposition politician Martha Karua, Byanyima wrote on the social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am now reliably informed that he is in a military jail in Kampala,\u201d said Byanyima, who is the executive director of UNAIDS, the United Nations program on HIV\/AIDS. \u201cWe his family and his lawyers demand to see him. He is not a soldier. Why is he being held in a military jail?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Museveni\u2019s government has been accused of repeated human rights abuses against opposition leaders and supporters, including illegal detentions, torture and extra-judicial killings.<\/p>\n<p>Officials deny the accusations and say those arrested are detained legally and processed appropriately by the court system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye stands in the dock at the courtroom A prominent Ugandan opposition politician was kidnapped during a book launch in Kenya over the weekend, transferred to Uganda and is being held at a military jail in Kampala, his wife said on Wednesday. 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