The health of jailed Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye is failing, his party says, after he was driven overnight to a medical facility in the capital of Kampala. Besigye’s health “has reached a critical and deteriorating state,” the People’s Front for Freedom said in a statement on Tuesday that also demanded unrestricted access to Besigye by his personal doctors and family. Besigye, a veteran politician who was Uganda’s most prominent opposition figure before the rise of Bobi Wine, is being detained in a maximum-security jail in Kampala. He is set to be tried for treason charges he says are politically motivated.
