AP reports from Kampala, Uganda: Police in Uganda have again arrested the country's top opposition leader during a protest march.

An Associated Press reporter who witnessed the arrest says Kizza Besigye locked himself inside his vehicle and that police used an ax and the butts of their guns to smash open the windscreen. Police then fired tear gas into the vehicle.

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A plainclothes policeman smashes the car window of opposition leader Kizza Besigye in Kampala, Uganda on April 28.

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Another police officer tear gases Besigye in his car.

Judith Nabakooba, a police spokeswoman, said Besigye was arrested for causing chaos. She said that his supporters hurled stones at passing vehicles.

The arrest is Besigye's fifth for participating in "walk to work" protests. Besigye, who says he is protesting government corruption and high food and fuel prices, came second to President Yoweri Museveni in Uganda's February presidential election.

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A policeman goes after a sympathizer of opposition leader Besigye.

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Besigye, center, wipes his face while he is dragged away by two plainclothes policemen.

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Besigye sits in the Kasangati police station on April 29 after he was detained and attacked with teargas by the police earlier at Mulago roundabout in Kampala.

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AP reports from Kasangati, Uganda: Police in Uganda battled protesters for the third time in a week and again arrested the country's top opposition politician on Monday, and the Red Cross said one protester died after being tear gassed.

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A Ugandan anti-riot policeman directs Forum for Democratic Change leader Kizza Besigye (center, with bandage) to board a police pick-up track before his arrest in the Kasangati suburb of the capital Kampala on April 18. Ugandan opposition leader Besigye was arrested on Monday during a protest against high food and fuel prices in the capital Kampala, police said.

Police arrested Kizza Besigye and about a dozen members of parliament while trying to walk to work. Police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said Besigye was arrested for trying to hold a political demonstration.

Besigye was arrested twice last week while trying to walk to work to protest the high cost of gas and food. Last week violence broke out during his second attempt and he was shot in the hand by police.

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Ugandan security agents arrest Kizza Besigye center) in, Kasangati, Kampala on April 18.

Besigye took second place in Uganda's February presidential election to President Yoweri Museveni. A leader in Besigye's political party, the Forum for Democracy, said Monday's arrest was unfair.

"He has a right to walk if he wishes so," Ann Mugisha said. Continue reading.

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Kizza Besigye (center) sits on the back of a police pick-up truck after he was arrested in Kasangati, Kampala on April 18.

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Ugandan police beat up a protester on Thursday, April 14, in Kampala, Uganda. Witnesses in Uganda say police fired tear gas into a hospital during a skirmish with stone-throwing protesters.

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A Ugandan policeman kicks a protester, in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, April 14.

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Supporters of Uganda's Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leader Kizza Besigye participate in a protest along the road in the Kasangati suburb of the capital Kampala on Thursday.

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Uganda's opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye (on stretcher) is taken to hospital in Kampala on Thursday. Besigye was shot in the arm when police on fired tear gas and rubber bullets to stop groups of protesters from marching towards the capital Kampala, the Red Cross said.

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Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye, President Yoweri Museveni's closest rival in February elections, was injured while taking part in a protest against high food and fuel prices, he said on Thursday.

Military police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse a crowd of more than 1,000 led by Besigye marching to the center of the capital Kampala, Reuters witnesses said.

"Shortly after the firing began I was hit and I suspect it was a rubber bullet. I had sharp pain and so this ring finger started bleeding," Besigye told reporters at the Kampala Hospital before he was taken for treatment.

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