Leading Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye has been arrested multiple times, pepper-sprayed, faced spurious charges of rape and treason, and once fled the country in fear of his life. Besigye ran again against his former patient in 2006 but spent most of the campaign defending himself against rape and treason charges that the High Court later found were trumped up.

Leading Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye is due to appear before a military court on Wednesday, his lawyer said, after his reported abduction in neighbouring Kenya. Phillip Wafula Oguttu, a leading figure in the new party who was also in the FDC,

Kizza Besigye is a longtime critic of strongman President Yoweri Museveni. Besigye's wife says he is being held in military jail despite not being a soldier.

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye is being held in a military jail after being detained in neighboring Kenya’s capital over the weekend and moved to Kampala, according to his wife.

The wife of Ugandan opposition politician, Kizza Besigye, has asked Uganda’s military to release her husband from military detention in Kampala. According to Winnie Byanyima, Dr Besigye is in detention after he went missing on Saturday in Nairobi where he had gone to attend a book launch by Kenya’s former Minister for Justice,

Veteran Uganda Opposition leader Kizza Besigye was kidnapped from Nairobi on Saturday November 16 as he attended an event he had invited to.

Kizza Besigye, a prominent Ugandan opposition politician, was allegedly kidnapped during an event in Kenya, transported to Uganda, and is reportedly held in a military prison. His detention is part of ongoing tensions between Uganda's government and opposition leaders,

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.

The wife of Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye says he was kidnapped in neighboring Kenya and is being held in a Ugandan military jail

Leading Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye was "kidnapped" in Kenya and is being held in a Kampala military jail, according to his wife, a top UN official.

Kizza Besigye, a major Ugandan opposition figure, was "kidnapped" in Kenya and is being held in a Kampala military jail, his wife, a top UN official, said Tuesday."Why is he being held in a military jail?