The spouse of Ugandan opposition determine Kizza Besigye says he has been abducted and is now being held in an army prison.

In a publish on X, Winnie Byanyima wrote that her husband were seized in Kenya’s capital Nairobi endmost Saturday right through a store inauguration tournament.

“I am now reliably informed that he is in a military jail in Kampala,” she mentioned, challenging that the federal government of Uganda loose her husband.

BBC Information has requested the Ugandan executive for remark at the factor.

Besigye, 68, led the Discussion board for Democratic Exchange (FDC) political celebration, contesting and shedding 4 presidential elections towards incumbent Yoweri Museveni, who has been in energy since 1986.

“We his family and his lawyers demand to see him,” his spouse wrote on X.

“He is not a soldier. Why is he being held in a military jail?”

Winnie Byanyima is a human rights suggest and government director of Unaids, the joint UN programme which was once all set as much as get rid of Aids.

Kizza Besigye impaired to be Museveni’s private physician however he went directly to transform an opposition chief and has referred to chief of the east African nation as a “dictator”.

He has alleged that earlier presidential elections had been rigged – a declare denied by way of the federal government.

The opposition determine has been arrested on various events within the era.

On one future he was once shot within the hand, on every other he suffered optical accidents nearest being doused in pepper leak.

The government have accused him of scary them, and he has been charged with inciting violence.