Detained prominent Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye, who collapsed while in court on Wednesday, is unconscious ​and has been admitted to an intensive care ‌unit, his wife said in an X post early on Thursday. Besigye, 70, collapsed in a court in the capital ​Kampala where he is standing trial for treason. ​He was taken away in an ambulance. In a ⁠post on the X platform, Winnie Byanyima, who ​also heads the United Nations AIDS programme UNAIDS, said ​her husband had been admitted to an ICU at Mulago National Referral Hospital in the capital. “He is unconscious, unable to speak, ​and unresponsive even to a pain stimulus,” she ​said. Government spokesperson Alan Kasujja did not answer a Reuters call for ‌comment. Besigye ⁠has been in custody since November 2024 after he was detained together with his aide Obeid Lutale in neighbouring Kenya and both were repatriated to Uganda ​where they were ​subsequently charged ⁠with treason.

Full report : Detained Ugandan opposition figure is unconscious, in intensive care, his wife says.