{"id":28065,"date":"2011-10-19T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T09:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=28065"},"modified":"2011-12-05T15:43:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T15:43:43","slug":"uganda-opposition-leader-arrested-during-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=28065","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Opposition leader arrested during protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Uganda\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Uganda\" target=\"_blank\">Ugandan<\/a> opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, was\u00a0<a title=\"Guardian - Ugandan opposition leader arrested during protest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/oct\/18\/uganda-opposition-leader-arrested?CMP=twt_fd\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> during a protest against surging consumer prices and wasteful government spending yesterday. Besigye was arrested during the &#8220;Walk to work&#8221; protest\u00a0on the outskirts of the capital Kampala. Opposition youths threw rocks at passing vehicles and smashing windscreens, following Besigye&#8217;s <a title=\"AFP: Uganda police arrest opposition leader Besigye\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5inl0IXpd7G1RWU8L9N6pg95tQEwA?docId=CNG.ad1a10878c80dae7d2f2d5795cf1546d.561\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;preventative&#8221; arrest<\/a>.\u00a0Police say the politician was later released and taken to his home in the\u00a0Kasangati suburb. In April, the country experienced\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/apr\/28\/ugandan-police-teargas-arrest-opposition-leader\">deadly protests <\/a>over the high costs of basic commodities and transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ugandan opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, was\u00a0arrested during a protest against surging consumer prices and wasteful government spending yesterday. Besigye was arrested during the &#8220;Walk to work&#8221; protest\u00a0on the outskirts of the capital Kampala. Opposition youths threw rocks at passing vehicles and smashing windscreens, following Besigye&#8217;s &#8220;preventative&#8221; arrest.\u00a0Police say the politician was later released and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[540,584,585],"tags":[346,212,7378],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28065"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30741,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28065\/revisions\/30741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}