Ugandan opposition politician ‘kidnapped’ in Kenya, taken to military jail
Al Jazeera
Kizza Besigye’s wife says he was seized in Nairobi, is being held in Kampala, and calls for his immediate release.
Prominent Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye has been kidnapped in neighbouring Kenya and taken to a military jail in Uganda, according to his wife.
Winnie Byanyima, the executive director of the United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), called on the Ugandan government, in a post on X, to release her husband immediately.
He was kidnapped last Saturday while he was in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to attend a book launch event of another politician, according to Byanyima.
“I am now reliably informed that he is in a military jail in Kampala,” she wrote. “We his family and his lawyers demand to see him. He is not a soldier. Why is he being held in a military jail?”
The Ugandan government and military have not commented on the incident.
