Uganda arrests opposition's Besigye again, breaks up price protests

FILE PHOTO: Veteran Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye addresses members of opposition in parliament who visited him at his home in Kasangati, Wakiso district on the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda May 17, 2022. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan security forces re-arrested a veteran opposition politician on Tuesday and broke up a protest in the capital that he was leading against soaring consumer prices.

Kizza Besigye, 66, who has been detained dozens of times and lost four elections to long-serving President Yoweri Museveni, had somehow slipped out of home arrest to address a swelling crowd in downtown Kampala when police detained him.