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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan police and troops clashed with protesters demonstrating against the arrest on treason charges of the president's main political rival.
Kizza Besigye appeared in court Tuesday, a day after his arrest. Elsewhere in Kampala, his supporters ransacked businesses, burned tires and threw stones and other objects at security forces in the central business district.
Police spokesman Asuman Mugenyi said people were hospitalized for treatment of injuries, and 57 people were arrested. He said one man was shot to death by a private security guard as he was allegedly breaking into a shop.
Supporters, some shouting condemnation of President Yoweri Museveni, attended Besigye's court hearing. A district magistrate ruled that prosecutors have enough evidence to back charges of treason - which carries the death penalty.
Besigye, who returned from exile last month and has mounted the strongest challenge to Museveni's 19-year rule, is accused of recruiting, funding and arming rebels with the help of neighboring Rwanda, Congo and Sudan.
Museveni had been hailed as a reformist in a country that suffered the brutal tyranny of Idi Amin in the 1970s and 1980s. But his progressive credentials have been called into questions amid what his critics see as signs he wants to remain president for life.
