KAMPALA (Reuters) - Police have freed Uganda's leading opposition figure without charge one day after alleging he threatened national stability, his party said on Wednesday, as his supporters prepared for protests over high prices.
It was the second time in less than a week that Kizza Besigye, once a close ally of veteran President Yoweri Museveni, had been arrested, the latest in a series of detentions government critics say is aimed at quashing dissent.
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