Besigye case: Why is it so hard to obey apex court’s decision?
Kizza Besigye and his colleague Obeid Lutale stand in the steel dock at the General Court Martial in Makindye suburb of Kampala, Uganda, on November 20, 2024.
When prominent Ugandan politician Dr Kizza Besigye was abducted from Nairobi in November last year and renditioned to Kampala, it was a case of happenstance. But soon after, Tanzanian human rights activist and journalist Maria Sarungi-Tsehai was abducted and held for four hours in the same city, being released apparently after her abductors failed to ferry her across the border into Tanzania.
There was outcry in the region against what was viewed as state hooliganism now turned into a collaborative activity among East African regimes against pro-democracy activists.
