France, Aug. 1 -- His wife Winnie Byanyima, who also heads ⁠the United Nations AIDS programme, posted on social media early on Thursday that her husband had been admitted to an intensive care unit in the capital.

"Our leader Kizza Besigye has been put in ICU at Mulago Hospital. His condition has deteriorated... Pray for Besigye. The regime & Baguma want him dead." she wrote on X - referring to President Yoweri Museveni and the judge at the trial, Justice Emmanuel Baguma.

"He is unconscious, unable to speak, and unresponsive even to a pain stimulus," she wrote.

Besigye, 70, collapsed in a court in the capital Kampala where he is standing trial for treason. He was taken away in an ambulance.

On Wednesday evening, his wife had post...