Ugandan opposition determine Kizza Besigye was kidnapped in neighboring Kenya and returned to his hometown the place he’s being held in a navy jail, his spouse mentioned.
Winnie Byanyima wrote in a submit on X that her husband was arrested final Saturday throughout a ebook launch in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital.
“I’ve now obtained dependable data that he’s in a navy jail in Kampala,” she mentioned, asking the Ugandan authorities to launch her husband.
Military spokesman Felix Kurajye advised the Uganda Broadcasting Community company that he could be arraigned in court docket later.
He didn’t specify whether or not the navy detained him.
BBC Information has requested the Ugandan authorities for remark.
Uganda’s Each day Observer reported that senior members of Uganda’s Discussion board for Democratic Change (FDC) political occasion gathered on the Makinye Army Courtroom in Kampala in anticipation of his look.
Kenya’s state-funded human rights physique KNHRC condemned “any type of kidnapping of individuals looking for asylum in our nation”.
Besigye, 68, leads the PF and has contested 4 presidential elections, defeating incumbent President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in energy since 1986.
“We, his household and his attorneys have requested to see him,” his spouse wrote on the X.
“He isn’t a soldier. Why is he in a navy jail?”
Ms. Byanyima is a human rights advocate and govt director of UNAIDS, the United Nations’ joint program to eradicate AIDS.
Besigye was Museveni’s private physician however later turned an opposition chief and has referred to as the East African nation’s chief a “dictator”.
He claimed that earlier presidential elections had been rigged, a declare the federal government denies.
The opposition determine has been arrested a number of occasions prior to now.
At one level, he was hit within the hand, and at one other time, he was pepper-sprayed and suffered a watch harm.
Authorities accused him of scary them and of inciting violence.
Kenyan human rights teams have voiced their considerations lately following a collection of pressured deportations.
Final month, 4 Turkish refugees had been kidnapped at gunpoint by masked males in Nairobi and returned to Türkiye.
In July, 36 Ugandan opposition supporters who had traveled to Kisumu, Kenya, had been deported with out due authorized course of, in accordance with attorneys.
