 On Wednesday 11th
December
2005,
at 12:15 hours
at
Mandela
stadium, Col.
(Rtd)
Dr. Kizza Besigye,
Forum For
Democratic Change
Party President,
was
officially
declared
presidential
candidate in the
March 2006 polls
by the elections
commission.
With KB prevented
from attending the
nomination
ceremony, his
portrait was
placed on an
empty chair
in
the middle of a
row of FDC
leaders who handed
in his nomination
papers.
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Monday
January 02, 2006, Uganda's High Court ordered
the release of Dr. Besigye and he was set free on bail. He
had been illegally detained and in prison since his return
from exile in November on trumped up treason, rape, firearms
and terrorism charges.
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