DAKAR, Senegal — One of the main opposition parties in Ivory Coast has denounced what it says are “arbitrary arrests” of six party members, calling the arrests part of a broader crackdown following the disqualification of key rivals to President Alassane Ouattara and his bid for a fourth term.

Sébastien Dano Djédjé, the executive president of the African Peoples’ Party–Côte d’Ivoire, or PPA-CI, the party of former President Laurent Gbagbo, said during a news conference Sunday that the party members were “abducted and taken to unknown locations” overnight from Saturday to Sunday.

Among them are party members from Youpougon, a suburb of the capital Abdijan, where armed attackers torched a bus and assaulted police days before, he said.

Interior Minister Vagondo Diomandé released a video to

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