No Hope: Wifes Fears For Ugandan Opposition Leader Facing Trial For Treason

Kizza Besigye, veteran opponent of President Yoweri Museveni, may face death penalty but will not get justice in military court, warns Winnie Byanyima, UNAids chief It was a message from her sister-in-law asking where he was that made Winnie Byanyima start worrying about her husband, Dr Kizza Besigye, a prominent Ugandan opposition leader. Byanyima, head of UNAids, had just returned from Malawi to Geneva, where the UN programme on HIV/Aids is based, in November. She rang Besigyes phone it was off. She made some calls and learned that he had gone from Uganda to neighbouring Kenya to attend a book launch. Then a journalist told her he believed Besigye was now being held in a military prison in Kampala, Ugandas capital.