2012 Arrest
Besigye was arrested on 1 October 2012 after an attempt to make a speech to vendors in Kiseka market in Kampala, Uganda. He was promptly arrested and was taken to a Central Police Station in the city. Earlier, police had deployed heavily at Besigye's home in a move to block him from traveling to town to hold his planned rally, but he managed to elude the security officials to a then undisclosed location until his arrest by police at the city market about an hour later.
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