Sent Back to Prison While Too Weak to Walk: The Battle Over Kizza Besigye’s Medical Care

A stark contradiction has opened up between official assurances and a wife’s anguished account. While Uganda’s Health Minister declared Kizza Besigye was ‘steadily recuperating’ at Mulago Hospital, Winnie Byanyima says he was bundled back to Luzira Prison that same evening unable to walk, speak clearly, or feed himself. The details are alarming, and the questions they raise are even more so.