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Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Kizza Bsigye, a Ugandan opposition leader and the chief challenging candidate in Uganda’s presidential elections this week, was briefly detained by police, although according to the police he was not under arrest.
Besigye and six other candidates are looking to end the reign of President Yoweri Museveni. While opposition parties are unlikely to win this election, it will likely be the toughest challenge Museveni has seen at the polls in his 30-year tenure.
Witnesses and supporters of Besigye said he was taken away from a rally by security forces and police fired tear gas into his crowd of supporters. Besigye was detained after police asked him and his supporters to use a different route during their march into central Kampala, according to a witness at the rally.
This is not Besigye’s first go-round at trying to unseat Museveni, having challenged him in the 2001, 2006 and 2011 elections. After losing the 2011 election, he was shot by the military police and detained several times. This past October he was temporarily placed under house arrest to prevent him from holding opposition rallies.
The election is scheduled for Thursday, February 18.
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