Kizza Besigye sues Kenya, Uganda in East African court
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.
Ugandan opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye has sued the governments of Kenya and Uganda over his abduction from Nairobi before being forcibly returned to Kampla and tried in a military court despite being a civilian.
In a petition filed at the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) Kampala sub-registry, on December 4, Dr Besigye argues that Kenya aided the Ugandan security forces to carry out what he calls an extraterritorial abduction, a move he says violates several provisions of the 2010 Constitution of Kenya and the East African Community Treaty.
