Detained Ugandan opposition figure is unconscious, in intensive care, his wife says
Winnie Byanyima said the 70-year-old opposition leader is unresponsive in intensive care after collapsing during his treason trial.
- On Wednesday, Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye collapsed during his treason trial in Kampala and is now unconscious in the intensive care unit at Mulago National Referral Hospital, according to UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima.
- Besigye has been in custody since November 2024 after being repatriated from Kenya, with supporters and rights activists claiming the treason charges are politically motivated attempts by President Yoweri Museveni to suppress opposition.
- Byanyima stated her husband is "unconscious, unable to speak, and unresponsive even to a pain stimulus," while Ingrid Turinawe noted that Besigye's personal physician was permitted to see him several hours after the collapse.
- Turinawe and others were denied access to Besigye at the hospital, while President Museveni and Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba have publicly alleged he plotted serious offenses against the government.
- Once a trusted ally of Museveni, Besigye later became a fierce critic of the president, condemning what he described as a descent into authoritarianism as Museveni serves a seventh consecutive term in office.
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Detained Ugandan opposition figure unconscious in intensive care, wife says
Detained Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye, who collapsed in court on Wednesday, is unconscious and has been admitted to an intensive care unit, his wife said in a post on X early on Thursday.
Ugandan Opposition Leader Besigye in ICU After Collapsing in Court
Cape Town -- Veteran opposition politician Dr. Kizza Besigye was admitted to the intensive care unit at Mulago National Referral Hospital on Wednesday after collapsing during a session of his treason trial at Kampala's High Court, according to his wife, Winnie Byanyima.
Ugandan opposition leader in intensive care: wife
Besigye, 70, has been in custody and facing treason charges over an alleged plot against President Yoweri Museveni. At a court appearance on Wednesday he rejected state-appointed lawyers. He was expressing anger at his own representatives being refused when he collapsed. His wife Winnie Byanyima, the executive director of UNAIDS, wrote on X: "He has been admitted to the ICU at Mulago Hospital (in Kampala). "He is unconscious, unable to speak, a…
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