Detained Uganda opposition leader contemplates hunger strike
The wife of jailed Ugandan opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye says her husband is contemplating a hunger strike to protest his continued detention despite a Uganda Supreme Court ruling in his favor. Besigye and a co-defendant are on trial in a military court for the unlawful possession of ammunition and a firearm. However, the Supreme Court ruled on January 31 that the government should stop trying civilians in military courts and move Besigye’s trial to the civilian courts. Besigye’s wife, Winnie Byanyima, who is also executive director of the United Nations AIDS agency (UNAIDS), tells VOA’s James Butty, her husband sees his continued detention as an injustice.
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