In a deeply emotional video that has sent shockwaves through Uganda’s political circles, Winnie Byanyima, a respected diplomat and the Executive Director of UNAIDS, has broken her silence. She is pleading with President Yoweri Museveni to immediately release her husband, opposition leader Kizza Besigye, from Luzira Maximum Security Prison. Besigye, 68, has been held without […]
“ It was a normal relationship with President Museveni. It had some challenges, and I left it, but it is not relevant to the political discussion.”
During a court hearing on Monday, a military prosecutor read Besigye and his co-accused the new charge of treachery.
His detention and transfer to Uganda has fuelled criticism of Kenya’s record on human rights and international law.
Uganda Opposition leader Kizza Besigye was traced to a military detention centre after he went missing in Nairobi on Saturday, November 16. He was later traced to a military detention centre in Kampala, Uganda, his wife Winnie Byanyima said. It is not clear who was behind the incident. He had come to Nairobi to attend […]
