Fugitive Zambian MP arrested in Zimbabwe – M

 Outstanding Ugandan opposition resolve Kizza Besigye has seemed earlier than a militia courtroom within the capital, Kampala, the put he has denied costs that consist of the unlawful posses­sion of firearms and negotiating to aquire arms out of the country.

His look comes after his vital other acknowledged he modified into as soon as kidnapped in neigh­bouring Kenya final Saturday and sent serve home the put modified into as soon as being held in a militia detention center.

In a post on X, Winnie Byanyima wrote that her 68-twelve months-obsolete husband had been seized in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, throughout a book open occasion – and he or she demanded the Ugandan authorities free him.

Besigye modified into as soon as told throughout the militia courtroom hearing, held amid heavy secu­rity, that he would reside in custody till 2 December.

Besigye – who has contested and lost four presidential elections against President Yoweri Museveni – seemed collectively alongside with his co-accused, opposition baby-kisser Obedi Lutale, who also denied the costs.

The four counts they face consist of being came upon with two pistols and ammunition in a resort within the Kenyan capital and negotiating for arms with foreigners within the Swiss city of Geneva, the Greek capital, Athens, and Nairobi.

The BBC requested the Ugandan authorities for mutter following the in a single day tweet from Ms Byany­ima, who’s a respected human rights advocate and govt director of UNAids – the joint UN programme plan up to eradicate.

The authorities did now not respond, but Uganda’s militia spokesman Fe­lix Kulayigye then told a neighborhood media company that Besige might per chance per chance be arraigned at a militia courtroom on Wednesday afternoon, without expressly pointing out if the militia modified into as soon as preserving him.

On his arrival at the Makindye militia courtroom – after being incommu­nicado for days, Besigye waved to the gathered journalists and senior mem­bers of his Discussion board for Democratic Trade (FDC) occasion.

As the hearing bought below components, Besi­gye objected to being tried in a courtroom martial, announcing that if there had been any costs against him he would desire to be tried in a civilian courtroom.

But he modified into as soon as overruled and the hear­ing persevered.

Earlier his vital other had acknowledged in her tweet: “He’s now not essentially a soldier. Why is he being held in a militia detention center?”

Besigye worn to be Museveni’s per­sonal doctor but went on to alter into an opposition leader and has referred to the leader of the East African country, who has been in energy since 1986, as a “dictator”.

He has alleged that old presi­dential elections had been rigged – a dispute denied by the authorities – and has been arrested on loads of events within the previous.

On one occasion he modified into as soon as shot within the hand; on one other he suffered detect injuries after being doused in pepper spray.

—BBC

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