Treason charge laid
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He was accused with others, only one of whom was in court, with having plotted to overthrow President Milton Obote's Government, and was remanded in custody until August 1, the radio said.
Mr. Kirya's wife said here she had no news of him since Saturday, when two men who said they were plain-clothes policemen took him from his Nairobi home.
It was not clear how Mr. Kirya came to be in Uganda. Ugandan sources said the treason charge, carrying a possible penalty of death by hanging, alleged Mr. Kirya was a leader of the Uganda Freedom Movement (UFM) one of several guerrilla groups fighting to overthrow President Obote. The radio said the charge against him covered a period from December 1980 up to the present.
