{"id":3067,"date":"2022-05-25T10:49:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T10:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.qiraatafrican.com\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2022-05-25T10:49:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T10:49:26","slug":"uganda-veteran-opposition-figure-arrested-amid-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/3067\/uganda-veteran-opposition-figure-arrested-amid-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Veteran opposition figure arrested amid protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\".22d12wakc48.1.0.1.1.1.1:$post-628d0aa2fc2fb576dc00bf9d.0.6.0.0:$post_1\">Leading <a href=\"https:\/\/en.qiraatafrican.com\/topic\/uganda\/\">Ugandan<\/a> opposition figure Dr Kizza Besigye was arrested on Tuesday as he tried to lead a protest in the capital, Kampala, against the high cost of living.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".22d12wakc48.1.0.1.1.1.1:$post-628d0aa2fc2fb576dc00bf9d.0.6.0.0:$post_2\">The 66 year old ran for the presidency against Yoweri Museveni four times.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".22d12wakc48.1.0.1.1.1.1:$post-628d0aa2fc2fb576dc00bf9d.0.6.0.0:$post_3\">He used to be Mr Museveni&#8217;s personal doctor and has been arrested on many occasions.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".22d12wakc48.1.0.1.1.1.1:$post-628d0aa2fc2fb576dc00bf9d.0.6.0.0:$post_4\">Dr Besigye arrived at Tuesday&#8217;s protest with megaphones on his car and he caused business in the local area to come to a standstill, according to the Daily Monitor news website.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".22d12wakc48.1.0.1.1.1.1:$post-628d0aa2fc2fb576dc00bf9d.0.6.0.0:$post_5\">Ugandan police told the Reuters news agency that they are holding Dr Besigye on charges of inciting violence.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".22d12wakc48.1.0.1.1.1.1:$post-628d0aa2fc2fb576dc00bf9d.0.6.0.0:$post_6\">He has not yet commented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading Ugandan opposition figure Dr Kizza Besigye was arrested on Tuesday as he tried to lead a protest in the capital, Kampala, against the high cost of living. The 66 year old ran for the presidency against Yoweri Museveni four times. He used to be Mr Museveni&#8217;s personal doctor and has been arrested on many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"BBC","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,29],"tags":[1220,132],"class_list":["post-3067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-east-africa","tag-kizza-besigye","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}