reporters outside the complex said. Employees inside the office said they were
lying on the floor as
police moved “further into the building,” while “firing tear gas directly into the office.”The police operation came a day after voters went to the polls across Uganda. Al Jazeera said
it witnessed police detaining Besigye on February 18 “as he and his supporters tried to show journalists what they said was a vote-rigging operation in a suburban house.”
Tempers flared in parts of the country on voting day due to a delay in delivering voting materials to several polling stations, and
claims that some ballot boxes contained pre-ticked papers. Credit: Twitter/Michael O’Hagan">