Kizza Besigye is arrived at Nairobi Hospital Friday, religious leaders in Uganda have claimed the talks between the Government and the opposition to end the violence that has escalated in recent weeks.The Government has banned the market of labour protests against the cost high life and repeatedly arrested opposition politician Kizza Besigye.
Two people were killed when his supporters were demonstrating in the capital Kampala Friday.
Dr Besigye is treated in the Kenya, after having been sprayed pepper spray.
He has still not recovered his sight since police broke through the window of his car with the butt of a gun Thursday and sprayed at short range, the incident made front of the camera.
Political opposition was then delivered to the back of a pickup truck and driven at speed, before being released on bail for medical treatment.
Campaign of walking in the work of April, organized by several opposition parties, on the rise in fuel and food prices was marked by clashes between demonstrators and the police and the arrest of opposition politicians.
Museveni interruptedInter-religious Council of Uganda accused the police of using brutal force against demonstrators and the manner of the arrest of Dr Besigye condemned.
Continue reading East Africa correspondent will be Ross main history, KampalaThey perspective of a dialogue between the opposition and the Government seems very little unlikely for the time being.
The opposition has pledged to continue protests by walking to work and win political mileage by exposing the brutality of the police and the military. The Government of President Yoweri Museveni appears to many to be disconnected from the people who suffer as inflation soars.
Dr Besigye has lost three elections challenged to President Museveni. The two men spoke not from each other for ten years.
For now, the streets of Kampala are silent. President Museveni was speaking at an event in the capital Nairobi Kenya and by coincidence is exactly where Dr Besigye receives medical treatment.
The chances of meeting two to the Kenya are slim to non-existent. The more likelihood of violence in the streets of Uganda in the next few days remains high.
It calls for the Minister of the Interior and the Chief of the police to resign and for a dialogue between the opposition and the Government to immediately start.Bishop Zac Nirigiye of the inter-religious Council said that unless there was dialogue violence increase.
President Museveni, who was also to be in Nairobi on Saturday, was interrupted by a protester while delivering a speech to a business club.
"Mr President, how can we as Kenyans sitting here and you listen to while you were Ugandan brutalising?" the man shouted, before being taken by Mr. Museveni security details.
The leader (Uganda) said that Dr Besigye could walk to work if he wanted until he informed the police "subscribe to their" where it wants to convey.
"Kampala is a very crowded city," he said. It also describes the rioters Friday as "looters".
Dr Besigye, who was shot in the hand during a similar recent demonstration, lost to Mr. Museveni in an election in February, that he said was rigged.
Before polls, Dr Besigye had called for uprisings Egypt-style fraud.
Police responded by banning public demonstrations.
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