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| Uganda opposition leader back in police custody |
| 2016-02-24 |
| [GLOBALPOST] Uganda's main opposition leader was held by police on Monday at a cop shoppe outside the capital after being taken from his home where he had been under house arrest. Kizza Besigye has rejected the results of Thursday's election won by veteran President-for-Life Yoweri Museveni, and called on his supporters to join a protest march to the Electoral Commission headquarters in Kampala on Monday. A police front man said Besigye was being held at the Nagalama cop shoppe around 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of the capital under "preventative arrest". "We are preventing him from going to cause violence around the Electoral Commission offices," said Patrick Onyango, the Kampala police front man. |
| Posted by:Fred |