NAIROBI (Reuters) -Police detained a senior official of Uganda’s largest opposition party, National Unity Platform (NUP), on Monday while he attended a court appearance by his colleagues, a lawmaker from the party and a police spokesperson said.

Alex Waiswa Mufumbiro, who is NUP’s deputy spokesperson, was forced into a vehicle just outside a magistrate’s court in the capital Kampala, Joel Ssenyonyi, the leader of the opposition in parliament said.

Police spokesperson Kituuma Rusoke told Reuters that officers had detained Mufumbiro, but declined to give reasons for the action or say when he would be produced in court.

In recent months NUP, headed by pop star-turned-politician Bobi Wine, and other opposition parties have decried what they say is a campaign of abductions and torture of opp

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