Kizza Besigye collapses in court, ambulance takes him away Africa Just now

Prominent detained Ugandan Opposition figure Kizza Besigye collapsed on Wednesday while attending a court session in the capital Kampala where he is on trial for treason, a senior official in his party said.

After some time an ambulance came and they took him away but we don't know where he has been taken," Harold Kaija, a senior official in Besigye's party People's Front for Freedom (PFF), told Reuters." Besigye has been pressing the government to restore his defence team after the lead attorney, Martha Karua, a Kenyan, was declared persona non grata while another senior lawyer on the team, Erias Lukwago, was detained and charged with misprision of treason.