{"id":244533,"date":"2026-09-16T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-besigye-treason-witness-questioned-over-return-to-nairobi-apartment\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:30:21","slug":"uganda-besigye-treason-witness-questioned-over-return-to-nairobi-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-besigye-treason-witness-questioned-over-return-to-nairobi-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Besigye Treason Witness Questioned Over Return to Nairobi Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Kizza Besigye&#8217;s co-accused Obeid Lutale&#8217;s legal team on Tuesday got its long-awaited opportunity to cross-examine British-American Andrew Wilson, a key prosecution witness in the treason case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Led by Faruk Kizito Kamulegeya, the defence team spent considerable time seeking to distance their client from the charges, although the principal accused, Kizza Besigye, who remains absent from the proceedings, featured prominently during the cross-examination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">With details surrounding the events that led&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609160068.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kizza Besigye&#8217;s co-accused Obeid Lutale&#8217;s legal team on Tuesday got its long-awaited opportunity to cross-examine British-American Andrew Wilson, a key prosecution witness in the treason case. Led by Faruk Kizito Kamulegeya, the defence team spent considerable time seeking to distance their client from the charges, although the principal accused, Kizza Besigye, who remains absent from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":244534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,12066,32422,430,259,257,18788,6656,254,5962,4707,7896],"class_list":["post-244533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apartment","tag-besigye","tag-kenya-news","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-questioned","tag-return","tag-south-africa-today","tag-treason","tag-uganda","tag-witness"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}