{"id":72218,"date":"2025-02-17T17:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T17:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72218"},"modified":"2025-02-17T17:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T17:09:16","slug":"detained-ugandan-opposition-leader-briefly-taken-ill-after-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/17\/detained-ugandan-opposition-leader-briefly-taken-ill-after-hunger-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Detained Ugandan opposition leader briefly taken ill after hunger strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1zdPmj.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6&amp;x=243&amp;y=92&amp;s=40&amp;d=40\" alt=\"In this Monday, Feb. 22, 2016 file photo, Uganda's main opposition leader Kizza Besigye, center, is arrested by police and thrown into the back of a police van in Moroto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was transferred back to prison on Monday after a medical emergency caused by his ongoing hunger strike, which has now lasted a week.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/detained-ugandan-opposition-leader-briefly-taken-ill-after-hunger-strike\/ar-AA1zdDJa?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=9283e232c31446bbeacc075b08cad30d&amp;ei=17\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was transferred back to prison on Monday after a medical emergency caused by his ongoing hunger strike,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Besigye-frail.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72220,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72218\/revisions\/72220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}