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Kizza Besigye freed on bail after two weeks

Uganda veteran opposition figure Kizza Besigye. [Dai Kurokawa, EPA]

A court in Uganda released veteran opposition figure Kizza Besigye on bail on Friday after spending two weeks in jail awaiting trial on charges of inciting violence.

Besigye, 66, was detained on June 14 in the capital Kampala as he led protests against sky-rocketing consumer prices and was charged with inciting violence the following day.

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